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The previous chapter considered the various kinds of alerts. I now discuss how these can be implemented, and explore the issues related to standardization – more precisely, the lack of it. The presence of standards allows sharing of intellectual effort, so no one can be opposed to it in principle. However, while standardization has been enforced in many areas of biomedicine, standardization efforts in decision support have not been very successful to date. Let us first look at one of the root sources of the problem: namely, no one can mandate that all EMRs be built exactly alike.
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Nadkarni, P.M. (2011). Challenges in Electronic Decision Support Implementation. In: Metadata-driven Software Systems in Biomedicine. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-510-1_7
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