Clinical decision support · Diagnostic imaging
The right imaging test, the first time.
Datasoft Health builds clinical decision support for diagnostic imaging. Our first product, appropriate.health, puts the published, peer-reviewed referral guideline in front of the clinician at the moment the imaging order is written.
What we do
Guideline at the point of order
The decision about which imaging test to perform follows a published, peer-reviewed guideline rather than individual preference. Consistently, and on the record.
Advisory, never a denial
The platform presents the guideline and its evidence grading. The clinician retains full authority to proceed, adjust, or override with documented rationale. No order is automatically approved, denied or modified.
Canadian standard, Canadian hosting
All 295 Canadian Association of Radiologists referral-guideline scenarios are encoded. Data is hosted entirely in Canada, and the platform is compliant with PIPEDA and HIPAA.
Why it matters
Patients deserve the right test first.
Ordering an exam, performing it and interpreting it is a shared responsibility between the referring clinician and the radiologist. appropriate.health makes that responsibility explicit rather than ambiguous. The imaging decision follows published clinical evidence rather than individual opinion or preference, and every recommendation, decision and documented rationale is recorded and coded — which makes the reasoning defensible for the clinician as well as visible to the system.
Quality of care
Patients reach the diagnostic answer by the pathway the evidence supports, sooner.
Wait times
Capacity taken by exams that were never indicated returns to the patients who need it.
Cost
Inappropriate exams are avoided before acquisition, not recovered afterwards.
Evidence
The guideline already exists.
The peer review already happened.
What has been missing is anything that puts it in front of the clinician at the moment the order is written.
That is what we built, and we have tested it at scale — more than 300,000 real referrals from Canadian community imaging, each one checked against the national guideline. We can run the same analysis on your own referral data, and show you what it finds before anything changes in how your clinicians order.
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