Healthcare Clinical Decision Support System

Infectious diseases fourth edition 2017.

Healthcare clinical decision support system.

Cds tools and systems help clinical teams by taking over some routine tasks warning of potential problems or providing suggestions for the clinical team and patient to consider. Clinical decision support is built into all of the major ehr systems such as cerner epic meditech and allscripts. Clinical decision support is any tool that provides clinicians administrative staff patients caregivers or other members of the care team with information that is filtered or targeted to a specific person or situation. Clinical decision support cds provides clinicians staff patients or other individuals with knowledge and person specific information intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times to enhance health and health care.

Cds encompasses a variety of tools to enhance decision making in the clinical workflow. A clinical decision support system cdss is an application that analyzes data to help healthcare providers make decisions and improve patient care. It is a variation of the decision support system dss commonly used to support business management. Cds is intended to improve care quality avoid errors or adverse events and allow care team members to be more efficient.

Clinical decision support systems cdss are computer based programs that analyze data within ehrs to provide prompts and reminders to assist health care providers in implementing evidence based clinical guidelines at the point of care. A clinical decision support system cdss is a health information technology system that is designed to provide physicians and other health professionals with clinical decision support cds that is assistance with clinical decision making tasks. Patient centered clinical decision support pccds refers to decision support systems that support individual patients caregivers and health care teams in health related decisions and actions by leveraging patient specific information e g patient generated health data and patient centered outcomes research findings. Clinical decision support cds provides timely information usually at the point of care to help inform decisions about a patient s care.

Some of these vendors are elsevier truven health and zynx health.