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Clinical Decision Support

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Clinical Informatics Study Guide

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Clinical decision support (CDS) systems provide clinicians and patients with intelligently filtered information at appropriate times to foster better health processes, better individual patient care, and better population health. This chapter provides a brief history of CDS systems, reviews best practices for implementing CDS, describes the knowledge management cycle, and highlights unintended consequences of CDS coupled with quality, safety, ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns. Emerging trends include the use of CDS to enable population health management and to conduct clinical trials.

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  1. Center for Biomedical Informatics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, MRB-4, Boston, MA, USA

    Karandeep Singh MD

  2. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, MRB-4, Boston, MA, USA

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Singh, K., Wright, A. (2016). Clinical Decision Support. In: Finnell, J., Dixon, B. (eds) Clinical Informatics Study Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22753-5_6

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