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Clinical Decision Support at Intermountain Healthcare

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Clinical Decision Support Systems

Part of the book series: Health Informatics ((HI))

Abstract

Decision support technologies are becoming increasingly available to medical practitioners. A variety of programs designed to assist with drug dosing, health maintenance, diagnosis, and other clinically relevant healthcare decisions have been developed for the medical workplace. Increasing ease of access to personal computers is partially responsible for this growth. More important, however, is the growing dependency on computers to maintain part or all of the medical record.This has led to a growing interest in and, in some cases, dependency on, automated medical decision making to support the delivery of economical, quality care.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA

    Peter J. Haug MD, FACMI & Reed M. Gardner PhD, FACMI (Professor)

  2. Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA

    Peter J. Haug MD, FACMI

  3. Department of Medical Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA

    Reed M. Gardner PhD, FACMI (Professor)

  4. LDS Hospital/Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA

    R. Scott Evans MS, PhD, FACMI (Senior Medical Informaticist and Professor Biomedical Informatics)

  5. Department of Medical Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA

    Beatriz H. Rocha MD, PhD (Senior Medical Informaticist)

  6. Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA

    Roberto A. Rocha MD, PhD (Assistant Professor)

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  1. Health Informatics Program Department of Health Services Administration School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA

    Eta S. Berner EdD, FACMI, FHIMSS (Professor) (Professor)

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Haug, P.J., Gardner, R.M., Evans, R.S., Rocha, B.H., Rocha, R.A. (2007). Clinical Decision Support at Intermountain Healthcare. In: Berner, E.S. (eds) Clinical Decision Support Systems. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38319-4_8

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