Clinical Decision Support Paper

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1) Title & Introduction of topic; 2) Summary of 3 articles;3) Conclusion stating your opinion of the DSS, BI & analytics contributions and issues; 4) Reference list.
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DSS- allows for direct support to decision making- data presented to allow the end user to decide at that moment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29317919 This article is a review of the clinical decision support system process to help identify areas in the medication use process that impact quality and patient safety. Clinical decision support systems are defined as “software programs designed to assist health professionals with daily decisions using complex communication, analysis, synthesis, and presentation of clinical information selected from multiple sources.” …show more content…

(Wálleri C. Reis, 2017) The article emphasizes the use of clinical decision support systems to, “improve the medication-use process by providing information for standardizing clinical practice; clinical alerts regarding drug allergies, drug interactions, and dose ranges appropriate to the needs of the patient; clinical updates on the latest information relevant to pharmacotherapy; dose adjustment calculations based on patient characteristics; and communications on critical changes in the condition of a patient, facilitating appropriate adjustments.” (Wálleri C. Reis, …show more content…

The author notes that many companies feel they have data in their ERP solution, but do not have the means to extract and analyze it in real-time. An ERP can be difficult to use so the addition of business intelligence allows the end user to pull the data in a user-friendly fashion and interact with the reporting functionalities (Payne, 2017) via visualizations even though they are not a skilled user of the ERP. The addition of business intelligence, allows management to have consistent data which improves “communication, direction and decision-making” ultimately allowing the company to be more competitive and leads to a better

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