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In healthcare industry decision support provides clinicians, staff, patients or other healthcare individuals with knowledge & person-specific information, intelligently presented at appropriate time, to enhance health & health care facility.
Decision support system is an effective tool to enhance decision-making in the healthcare system, including computerized alerts & reminders to care providers & patients; clinical guidelines; condition-specific order sets; focused patient data reports, documentation templates; as well as diagnostic support.
Benefits of Decision support system:
Following are the major benefits of DS:
It is a sophisticated healthcare component, requiring computable biomedical knowledge, person-specific data, and reasoning skills to generate and present helpful information to healthcare.
This information must be filtered, organized & presented in a way that supports the current workflow, allowing the user to make an informed decision quickly to take action.
Finally health information technologies are effectively designed to improve clinical decision making capability of healthcare professional. And there is need to include novel techniques in it, as need of time.