Online clinical decision support and information system wins prestigious British Computer Society IT Award
CAMBRIDGE, UK- 6 November 2002- Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; LSE: AU.; Nasdaq Europe: AUTN), is today delighted to congratulate the Isabel Medical Charity upon winning a British Computer Society Award for the innovative nature of its online clinical decision support system for medical professionals (ISABEL).
The British Computer Society IT Awards were created 30 years ago to honor excellence in the field of UK Information Technology. The awards seek to encompass projects of social benefit and business value to society at large, as well as outstanding technical achievement and innovative flair.
ISABEL, which was launched in June of this year, aims to bridge the knowledge gap that exists in many health systems, notably that most of the critical knowledge and experience resides with senior consultants in hospitals and not with the doctors who first examine patients. ISABEL provides free of charge critical support in areas such as diagnosis, treatment guidelines and shared experience. ISABEL, which currently concentrates on pediatrics, also offers an annotated image library, allowing users to compare their patients' visible symptoms with those available on the site, and consequently assist them in making a potentially life-saving diagnosis.
Autonomy donated its pattern-matching software to the Isabel Medical Charity to enable fast, accurate assistance for all medical professionals, who often do not have the benefit of the more specialist knowledge required to make accurate diagnoses. Applying Autonomy's pattern matching software to medical textbooks enables ISABEL to deliver a fast and practical differential diagnostic tool. When using ISABEL the doctor simply needs to type in a patient's symptoms from which the Autonomy software extracts the key ideas before searching ISABEL's extensive library of content to find a similar combination of symptoms - and consequently suggesting a range of relevant diagnoses. In essence, this mimics the doctor's existing and intuitive diagnostic process, the difference being that the system's base of textbook knowledge is far larger than can readily be stored in the human brain. Its performance is also unaffected by tiredness and overwork.
About ISABEL
Jason and Charlotte Maude founded the project in July 1999 together with Dr Joseph Britto, Pediatric Intensive Care Consultant at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Three months prior to this, the Maudes' 3-year-old daughter, Isabel, had spent a month in Intensive Care suffering multiple organ failure and cardiac arrest and a further month in a High Dependency ward. All this because her local A&E department and GP had failed to recognize her critical, life-threatening symptoms following chicken pox. Against all odds, Isabel's sole legacy is a large wound requiring extensive plastic surgery. During their time in hospital, the idea of a diagnostic tool slowly evolved during conversations between the Maudes and Dr Britto, who gradually gathered the support of a number of high profile doctors from hospitals around the country to make up the ISABEL team. The Isabel Medical Charity received charitable status in April 2000. Its registered office is in London. Further information is on the web at www.isabel.org.uk.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; Nasdaq Europe: AUTN; LSE: AU.) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise. Autonomy's technology powers applications dependent upon unstructured information including e-commerce, customer relationship management, knowledge management, enterprise information portals, enterprise resource planning and online publishing. Autonomy's customer base includes more than 575 global companies, including Hutchison 3G, Channel 4, Deutsche Bank, AT&T, AstraZeneca, BAE Systems, Ford, Ericsson, General Motors, Lucent, Royal Sun Alliance, Sun Microsystems and public sector agencies including the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry, NASA, the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Energy. Strategic reseller and OEM partners include leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Computer Associates, Hewlett Packard, IBM Global Services, Oracle, Vignette and Sybase. The company has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia and is on the Web at www.autonomy.com.
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