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Clinical Decision Support Systems

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The medical community within the United States is adopting Electronic Health Records (EHRs) at an accelerating pace. These systems are designed to support medical documentation, communication, and billing practices and can bring the efficiencies of digital systems to these healthcare functions. However, one of the key advantages of an EHR is the availability of cognitive support provided during the care process in the form of embedded Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS). Historically, the initial exploration of CDS technologies occurred in a group of hospital-based EHRs. These pioneering institutions engaged in early experimentation with a variety of CDS interventions. In this chapter, we describe experience with a group of CDS applications developed and evaluated within the HELP Hospital Information System created and used by Intermountain Healthcare of Utah. These CDS applications have employed several different approaches in their interactions with clinical users and their capture and processing of clinical data.

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  1. Department of Medical Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare, 5171 Cottonwood Street, Suite 220, Murray, UT, 84107, USA

    Peter J. Haug M.D.

  2. Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, 1745 Cornell Circle, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA

    Reed M. Gardner Ph.D.

  3. Department of Medical Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare, 8th Ave & C Street, Salt Lake City, UT, 84143, USA

    R. Scott Evans B.S., M.S., Ph.D.

  4. Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Information Systems, Partners HealthCare System Inc., Harvard Medical School, 93 Worcester Street, Wellesley, MA, 02481, USA

    Beatriz H. Rocha M.D., Ph.D.

  5. Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Partners eCare, Partners HealthCare System Inc., Harvard Medical School, 93 Worcester Street, Wellesley, MA, 02481, USA

    Roberto A. Rocha M.D., Ph.D.

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Haug, P.J., Gardner, R.M., Evans, R.S., Rocha, B.H., Rocha, R.A. (2016). Clinical Decision Support at Intermountain Healthcare. In: Berner, E. (eds) Clinical Decision Support Systems. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31913-1_14

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