The Clinic Reminder System

This paper will showcase the major components of clinical decision support, as well at take a look what is analysis of evidence-based medicine and describe how computerized systems can be used to support evidence-based medicine practice. Clinic decision-making provides clinicians, staff, patients or other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance health and health care (Richardson & Ash 2011).

Major components of a Clinical Decision-Support System

A major component of clinical decision support system is it helps locate and prevent errors made by many providers. Other components of a clinical decision- support system are speed- this can make or break at system, it is very annoying if you have to set and wait for the system to perform a simple function as looking up information, the need and delivery of real time- if there is lag time and the information needed doesn’t appear in seconds it can pose as the system is not performing up to par, fit of the users work –flow- the alerts, guidelines, and algorithms need to be in place so there are no confusions when a users are dispersing medications, usability- this makes a tremendous difference in how a system performs many clinician want to be able to use a computer system with ease, if the system is to complicated it can appear as not user friendly, being aware that there will be resistances from the provider- offend many providers will give pushback on changing there mind without input as to way a change is required; for example should x-rays be taking on all patients with abdomen pain, approximately five percent of physician actually went with the recommendation of not ordering x-rays on patie...

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...ess information. The major components lay out the powerful tool for improving clinical care and patient outcome. However there is much to be said for how to influences physicians in the change of their decision-making.

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