An Investigation Into A Real World DSS Paper

Assignment 2: An Investigation into a Real-World DSS

Instructor: Dr. Rabea Kurdi

DSS for Clinical

Clinical Decision Support Systems designed for the Healthcare professionals designed to integrate a medical knowledge base to generate specific advice. A clinical decision support system helps the doctors to diagnose the patient quickly and efficiency point to what the row issue in him. Also it defined as active knowledge system, which used patient specific data to generate a specific advice. One of the major benefits of clinical decision support systems is reduction of miss diagnoses and medications. Also CDSS makes the doctor and the patient life easier. Another benefit is to increase patient outcomes hospital efficiency improved care,

Knowledge-based systems ate the commonest type of CDSS technology in routine clinical use, also known as expert systems. The knowledge-based system uses compiled clinical knowledge to provide clinical consultation. By far the majority of CDSS in medicine are knowledge-based (Berner, 2007). Non-knowledge-based systems do not use a knowledge base but use a form of artificial intelligence, machine learning, more like ‘trial and error’, that find patterns in clinical datasets, learning the type that is similar to one way that human learn (Kabachinski, 2013).

We have many tools for information management in healthcare and these some of that tools; Hospital information Systems, Specialized knowledge-management workstations and Bibliographic retrieval systems. These tools will give us the knowledge and the data that we need, but they can not gives us or apply that information to a particular decision task.

Clinical decision support systems useful in many things such as it give up the knowledge based on best evidence, data actively used drawn from existing sources, the data always updated and accurate and the decisions will made from a good quality of data and information about the patient. As a healthcare organization we have a lack of information that we store in our organization so the CDSS will helps us with this

To address the raising rates of medication errors occurring in their facility, St. Mark’s Medical Center deployed a medication clinical decision support tool. Their electronic medical record vendor provided a system that included computerized advice regarding drug doses, routes, and frequencies, drug allergy checks, drug– laboratory value checks, and drug-drug interaction checks and can provide reminders about corollary orders (e.g., prompting the user to order glucose checks after ordering insulin) or drug guidelines. Prescribers select medications from pull-down menus or from “favorites” lists and select directions from standardized text or typed as free-text. The system includes basic dosing guidance, presented in preference lists, and duplicate therapy checks.