Medical Articles

2011 in press
The Impact of Computer Resources on Child Neurology by Segal M and Leber S, in “Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice”, Swaiman KF et al., editors, 5th edition, Mosby.

November 2010
Brain letter Attenuated variants of Lesch-Nyhan disease: the case of King James VI/I by Garrard P et al., Vol 133, using SimulConsult to analyze a historical diagnosis.

April 2010
Paediatrics and Child Health Update on genetic investigation of children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders by Wright MJ et al., Vol 20, 179-185, discussing SimulConsult.

21 October 2009
Diagnostic Software as a Knowledge-Accumulating System for Understanding and Preventing Diagnostic Errors.  Diagnostic Errors in Medicine Annual Meeting abstract

2009
A Handbook of Neurological Investigations in Children by King MD and Stephenson BP, Mac Keith Press, discussing SimulConsult, beginning on page 1 with "With the explosion of electronic information such as found on PubMed and the availability of freely accessible diagnostic software such as SimulConsult one might ask what possible use is there for a handbook like this."

3 December 2008
MD NetGuide article "Medical Decision Support Software: Have Our Hopes and Fears Come True?" by Michael Segal MD PhD.

June 2008
Article "Health 2.0 for Neurologists" by Barbara Scherokman and Michael Segal on the Web site of the American Academy of Neurology.

December 2007
Acta Paediatrica "How doctors think, and how software can help avoid cognitive errors in diagnosis" Vol 96: 1720-1722.

July 2007
MD NetGuide article "Top Ten Physician Inventors" (on page 7) cites as #2 Michael Segal MD PhD: "Was responsible for the development of SimulConsult, a decision-support software that combines clinical and laboratory findings to help physicians come to a simultaneous diagnosis on a disease."

February 2007
"Health Information Technology for Personalized Health Care".  Submission by Michael Segal for the US Health and Human Services "Request for Information" Improving Health and Accelerating Personalized Health Care Through Health Information Technology and Genomic Information in Population- and Community-Based Health Care Delivery Systems.

6 February 2007
American Academy of Neurology Neurology Today article "Blogs, Wikis and Other Cutting Edge Technologies for Neurology" by Orly Avitzur MD.

July 2006
Journal of Child Neurology "Mobile Medical Computing Driven by the Complexity of Neurological Diagnosis" Vol. 21:595-599 (abstract here).

October 2005
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry review "Neuronline: SimulConsult: www.simulconsult.com" by Geraint Fuller.

2005
Child Neurology Society listing of SimulConsult Neurological Syndromes in the Society's Physicians Resources

March 2005
MD NetGuide article "SimulConsult Neurological Syndromes: A collaborative computerized approach to diagnosis" by Michael Segal MD PhD.

February 2004
American Academy of Neurology Neurology Today article "Neurologists Focus on Patient Safety" by Orly Avitzur MD.

November 2002
American Academy of Neurology Neurology Today article "How Neurologists Use the Internet to Enhance Clinical Decision-Making" by Orly Avitzur MD.