The George Clinic

The George Institute have invested several years in developing an Electronic Decision Support Tool for Cardiovascular risk assessment and management.  Ten Australian and international guidelines that are applicable to the assessment and management of vascular risk in the adult Australian population have been synthesised into a single set of recommendations to form the base of a cutting edge, custom-built decision support tool.

The development of the electronic decision support tool has involved a systematic search for all relevant guidelines, the extraction of the recommendations from each into a standard format, the synthesis of the guidelines into a single unified set of recommendations for cardiovascular risk assessment and management and the translation of the recommendations into first a custom built tool.  This concept tool has been presented at a number of health industry conferences and a number of peak bodies and government agencies around Australia with great interest.

Ultimately the goal is to take a new concept for cardiovascular disease management through the proof-of-concept stage and deliver a novel model for cardiovascular disease management. The application of this new process for service delivery will provide a low-cost way of closing the gap between guideline recommendations and current management of vascular disease in Australian primary care settings.

Currently, The George Institute is taking the concept tool development and refining it into a commercially ready software application that will be available for use in a primary care setting in 2010.