Clinical decision-support systems (CDSS) directly assist clinical professionals in data interpretation and decision-making in a patient-specific way.

1. Clinical Decision
Support Systems
(CDSS)
HCI 111 By Dr. Khaled Ouanes Ph.D.
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3. In Healthcare, Decision
making is more difficult and
complex.

4. Clinical Decision Support
Systems (CDSS)
Clinical decision-support systems directly
assist clinical professionals in data
interpretation and decision-making.

5. Clinical Decision Support
Once the basic clinical components of an HCIS are
well developed, clinical decision-support systems
can use the information stored there to:
 Monitor patients and issue alerts
Make diagnostic suggestions
Provide limited therapeutic advice
Provide information on medication costs

6. Clinical Decision Support
These capabilities are particularly
useful when they are integrated with
other information-management
functions.

7. Clinical Decision Support
A CDSS is any software intended to assist in
clinical decision making. Characteristics of
individual patients will be matched to an
electronic knowledge base helping with the
generation of patient specific assessments,
advice or recommendations that are
subsequently presented to clinicians for
consideration.

8. Clinical Decision Support

9. Clinical Decision Support
Example:
A useful adjunct to computer-based physician
order-entry (CPOE) is a decision support program
that alerts physicians to patient food or drug
allergies; helps physicians to calculate patient-
specific drug-dosing regimens; performs
advanced order logic…