HEALTH MANAGEMENT

INFORMATION SYSTEM-2
LAB EXERCISES
Implementing Clinical
Decision Support
System
Clinical Decision Support

• “Clinical decision support (CDS) 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”–AMIA
Roadmap (Osheroff, 2007)
CDS Functions

• Alerts/Notifications
• Order Checking
• Clinical Reminders
Alerts/Notifications

• Timely feedback on clinical events

• Some may be mandatory (always on) while
others can be enabled/disabled for user
customization
• Dynamic (Real time)
Order Checking

• Rules based
• Real time
• Provides recommendations that the clinician
usually has the option of overruling –i.e. does
not replace clinician expertise.
• Ex: duplicate orders, duplicate drug class orders,
adverse reactions, and drug-lab interactions
Clinical Reminders

• Especially useful for preventive health care and

managing chronic diseases.
• Provides timely reminders to aid in the tracking
and documentation of care.
Notification
about
abnormal
results
Notification
about
Cancelled
orders
 Notification
about expired
medications
Notification
about order
signatures -
required
 Order check
about duplicate
orders
 Order check
about drug-lab
interaction ex:
Glucophage
Notifications
list
References

Bob Sideli, Sarah Collins,(2012). Vendor specific

systems, Columbia University.
For any question, please contact
Dr. Nesma Mohamed
(Bpharm, HIF)
nesmam@mohp.gov.eg
nesma710@gmail.com