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| ABX Guide | |
Launched in 2000, the ABX Guide is a state-of-the-art resource for diagnosing, managing and treating infectious diseases. It has rapidly become a premier infectious disease resource in the field with more than 350,000 registered users--half of whom download the application to their PDA devices. | |
| HIV Guide | |
Launched in 2004, the HIV Guide is a single disease resource, with more than 10,000 registered users. Guides are authored by academic clinicians and subject to rigorous peer review. | |
The Johns Hopkins Point of Care Information Technology (POC-IT) Center develops electronic evidence-based clinical decision support guides to help health care professionals raise the standards of care and improve patient safety. POC-IT Center Guides are accessible through the Web and mobile technologies designed for use at the bedside in both primary and specialty care clinical settings.
POC-IT developed the ABX Guide and HIV Guide to meet the ever more urgent need of time-strapped clinicians by distilling complex material into need-to-know information that is easily accessible, rapidly viewed, with frequent updates so only the most up-to-date information is viewed. The Guides can be used on multiple platforms with integration of additional electronic resources (such as resistance calculators and drug-to-drug interaction tools) and can be easily repurposed for different audiences and for different types of use.
The POC-IT Center also integrates Continuing Medical Education material in the ABX and HIV Guides. These opportunities allow clinicians to further learn while acquiring CME credit in the context of actual patient care. Accredited by Johns Hopkins Office of CME, these education materials qualify for quarter-hour and one-hour credits.
