Question

is an example of a clinical decision support system included in an electronic record might be merely a reminder of blood work due or vaccines that need to be given?

Answer 1

*Electronic medical record (EMR) is electronic health-related info that can be created, gathered, managed and consulted by authorized physicians/clinicians within one health care organization.

Electronic health record (EHR) is an electronic record of health-related info that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians across ore than one health care organization

*The clinical decision support system is any software designed to directly aid in clinical decision-making in which characteristics of individual patients are matched to a computerized knowledge base for the purpose of generating patient-specific assessments or recommendations that are then presented to clinicians for consideration.

*CDSS's are computer-based systems that assist clinicians in making decisions about patient care. They help provide relevant evidence/analyses to aid the clinician in decision making more informed judgments. They support the 5 rights of medications such as the right patient, right drug, right dose, right route and the right time as well as it helps to break tons of data down to simple terms.

*The CDSS or the clinician decision support system entails the use of computer reminders and alerts to improve the diagnosis and care of a patient, including screening for correct drug selection and dosing, screening for medication interactions with other medicines,preventive health reminders in such areas as vaccinations,health risk screening and detections and clinical guidelines for patient disease treatment.

*The areas where reminders can be used in EHR are vaccinations and diagnostic screenings (preventive)

*Rule-based direct actions:

An algorithm that generates specialized actions Eg: Vaccine reminders in the patient health record

*CDSS help to improve quality by:

i)Improve adherence to guidelines

eg: Avoid inappropriate procedures

ii)Avoid diagnostic/therapy errors

a)drug interactions

b)delay in diagnosis

iii)Minimize problem severity/complications

-early alerts to abnormal values

-alerts to adverse drug events

-diagnostic screening reminders

-immunization reminders