Decision Support In Healthcare

Abstract Studies have shown that the increase of population in the United States is estimated to increase by 10.8% in this current decade. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that due to the growth in population, there will also be a growth in healthcare employment. (6) With the growth in the population and the healthcare industry, providers will begin looking for more and more ways to increase the quality of patient care. As healthcare providers look for more and more ways to provide efficiency, they will begin looking for more and more ways to effectively use Clinical Decision Support Systems. These systems are necessary in order to help health professionals in decision making task to provide care. Throughout the years, CDSS has …show more content…
Our society is constantly evolving and changing and information is being added on the internet constantly by the second. Decision support systems have been around since the end of the 1960’s. The Decision support systems became introduced fully in the 1970’s. Decision Support System has been developing for almost 40 years by different researchers. Decision Support Systems has been helpful in helping speedy computations, improved communication and collaboration, increased productivity in staff, improved the quality of decision making, improve the flexibility of time and the space of decision making. During this time period, Decision support systems evolve in a more computer-based systems that supported production, promotion, pricing, marketing and some logistical functions. Later in the 1980’s, the Decision support system began to help companies enjoy more interests from academics and the framework for Decision Support Systems. During the 1990’s, the Decision Support Systems began to become a more complex systems, which incorporated, advanced database technology and client server capabilities. The system began emerging from many areas in business processes. As many organizations started to upgrade their network infrastructure, object oriented technology and data warehousing started to make its mark on Decision Support Systems. The rapid expansion of the Internet provided …show more content…
Clinical decisions are used daily by healthcare service providers for daily routine task. They are often based on clinical guidance and evidence-based rules derived from medical science. A clinical decision support system (CDSS) “is an application that analyzes data to help healthcare providers make clinical decisions. A CDSS is an adaptation of the decision support system commonly used to support business management.” (5) It is described as a process that helps healthcare providers make health related decisions and actions that are important and relevant to the providing the patient with improved healthcare service. Clinical Decision Support systems are expected to be one of the most necessary operations for healthcare systems to improve the quality cost of delivering healthcare. Healthcare providers now even provide incentives for using the systems in efforts to improve the delivery of using the tools in the Clinical Decision Support Systems. CDSS helps all staff and those involved in the healthcare system from the clinicians, staff, the patients and other members who use the knowledge of the tool to enhance health care. CDSS has many clinical tools to help make decisions. Doctors, Physicians, nurses, and majority of healthcare providers use CDSS to help them prepare diagnoses to improve patient’s