Abbott AlinIQ CDS Expert

Abbott’s AlinIQ CDS Expert allows clinicians, pathologists and relevant experts to capture their intellectual property and decision-making processes in a case-based and rule-based solution. The solution has been developed not to replace clinician decision making, but to enable experts to apply their decision-making processes in a consistent, scalable manner.

AlinIQ CDS Expert uses an interactive and user-centred rule building process that allows the expert to produce algorithms using a natural language syntax, enabling programming of the decision rules and validation in real time by non-IT experts. This helps avoid the lengthy delays and costs often incurred when engaging IT departments or external vendors to write algorithms and build knowledge bases. Placing ownership of knowledge building in the hands of the clinician or relevant expert within the healthcare organisation results in automated, real-time clinical decision support aligned with institutional practice. The ownership of the knowledge base remains with the healthcare organisation and the incremental development and application of that knowledge base will drive improvement of clinical and non-clinical practice.

The integration of the case-based and rule-based approach results in a CDS solution that is demonstrating value to patients, clinicians and health systems in 200+ sites across Australia, New Zealand, Africa, USA and Europe. This approach not only represents excellence for its precision, robustness and learning capacity, but it is also an example of how to take full advantage of each of the case-based and rule-based techniques.

AlinIQ CDS Expert is part of Abbott’s suite of professional services and open informatics solutions that is delivering productivity in pathology and enabling pathology to continue to engage beyond traditional boundaries and deliver value to their customers.