Clinical decision support consists of numerous computerized and non-computerized tools and interventions. High-quality CDSS and computerized CDS are crucial to acquire the benefits of electronic health records as well as computerized healthcare order entry.
For instance, pharmacy information systems alert on the order of new drugs and propose a possible drug-drug interaction. Similarly, laboratory information systems (LISs) highlight critical care values.
A clinical decision support system keeps a record of all the data in the electronic health record and makes it possible to identify the changes.
There is a massive amount of clinical data is generated, with the advancement in healthcare. It includes electronic health records, patient surveys, disease registries, and information exchanges.
Moreover, healthcare professional usually makes decisions while directly interacting with the patient, having multidisciplinary or ward rounds meetings. It means several decisions are made in a few seconds or minutes and rely on medical knowledge and access to patient parameters to healthcare providers.
Presently, current decisions are made on the experience and knowledge of the professional. Also, unnoticeable changes in patients’ conditions before their admission to the ward are often ignored, and clinicians monitor current conditions.
However, a computer keeps a record of all the available data, and also makes it possible to see the changes outside the professional’s scope, and identify them for a specific patient, within normal limits.
The major companies operating in the industry are; Allscripts Healthcare LLC, NextGen Healthcare Inc., Siemens Healthineers GmbH, Cerner Corporation, McKesson Corporation, and Koninklijke Philips N.V.
Therefore, the massive amount of clinical data generation boosts the demand for a clinical decision support system.
