Decision Support Systems

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Introduction

The outcome of a situation can sometimes be determined by the choices that have been made. Decisions are made by individuals based on the surrounding factors. The type of jobs or where one resides are some of the decisions that are made. In addition, one can be faced with problems that he or she must resolve in order to learn from it. In the business world decisions are made based on the given factors that are presented. Organizations can use the assistance of a decision support system to help facilitate with the decision making.

Mesa’s Foundation Trust

Mesa’s Foundation Trust (MFT) is a medical provider that provides services to patients. MFT wants to reduce the amount of resources that were provider by several other facilities. During this consolidation MFT’s goal to continue to provide the same types of service and without impacting the amount of time. The need for a decision support system that can not only maintain the historical data, but also capture new data for analyzing. Based on the needs IT support must build the DSS to handle semi-structured problems. The decisions that are made based on given data are standard, but there will always be problems that fall outside the norm (Turban, Sharda, & Delen, 2011). There will be data that is known, but there will also be the unknown. The data should be gathered into a database that can provide management the ability to analyze. The system must be able to collect the given data and an process the information in a format that is understanding to the decision makers. Within the data driven model of the decision support system, the staff at the facility can quickly attend to the patients. Data must be accessible to all the associated medical facilities for MF...

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