Healthcare IT News: Clinical Decision Support

Clinical decision support (CDS) can extensively impact improvements in healthcare quality, effectiveness, safety, and efficiency. CDS assists healthcare professionals in decision making to enhance health and health care. The decision-making process suggested by the clinical decision support system includes the following: • Suggesting the next steps for treatments • Alerting healthcare professionals about the information they have missed • Helping providers in catching potential problems including harmful medication interactions Clinical decision support improves the decision-making process in the clinical workflow via different clinical decision support tools. Such tools may be computerized reminders that will alert providers and patients for avoiding errors and adverse events.