Clinical Decision Support System Analysis

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Clinical Decision Support System or CDSS is “a software designed to be a direct to clinical decision-making, in which both computerized knowledge and patient assessments are presented to the clinician for a decision” (Scarlat, 2012, pg. 222). CDSS is a useful tool that can facilitate the practice of EBP for the benefit of health care quality improvement. The article regarded CDSS as a reliable application that plays a major role on the decision-making process that clinicians have to make on a daily-basis, reducing making unnecessary errors, and an improvement in patient outcomes.
Some challenges that can serve as a barrier to CDSS is the lack of its integration with healthcare clinical workflow, and the lack of its own interoperability.