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Clinical decision support systems

topics to be covered: implementation issues ie barriers other CDSS systems currently inplace

An ever changing CDSS needs to be able to ensure that the CDSS is matching up with the current practice and best practice. The system is designed to help assist clinicians in the treatment but if it is not updated then it will delay and or hinder patient treatment thus not supporting the quality of patient care.

Although there certainly have been ongoing challenges in developing such systems, they actually have proven their reliability and accuracy on repeated occasions (Shortliffe, 1987).

By having a CDSS within an electronic health record can assist the clinicians by preventing an adverse event from occurring by the system detecting a contradiction to a planned treatment.

Electronic health records and clinical decision support systems: impact on national ambulatory care quality. Romano MJ, Stafford RS. Clinical decision support and rich clinical repositories: a symbiotic relationship: comment on "Electronic health records and clinical decision support systems". McDonald C, Abhyankar S.

http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/clinical-systems/10-innovative-clinical-decision-support/232300511

http://healthit.ahrq.gov/images/jun09cdsreview/09_0069_ef.html

http://www.bcmj.org/article/clinical-decision-support-systems

http://www.hisa.org.au/?about