Chapter 8: Clinical Decision Support

Chapter 8 explains why clinical decision support (CDS) is important not just for electronic health records (EHRs) but for healthcare reform and improvement. Sections include: Introduction, CDS benefits and goals, Organizational components of CDS, CDS methodology, CDS standards, CDS functionality, CDS sharing, CDS implementation, CDS challenges, Lessons learned, Recommended resources and Future trends

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Publication Date: Dec 31, 2016
Language: English
Category: Science & Medicine
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Robert E. Hoyt, By (author): Harold Lehmann

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Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records

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About Robert E Hoyt

Robert (Bob) Hoyt MD FACP has practiced internal medicine for over 35 years both in private practice and the military. He uses his clinical and medical research experience to critically analyze informatics literature. He along with his wife Ann Yoshihashi MD, created the first edition of the textbook in 2007 and the textbook is now in its seventh edition. Dr. William Hersh (OHSU) is the new co-editor for the seventh edition. Dr. Hersh is Professor and Chair of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU. He has a long history of lecturing and publishing in informatics. He is now the author of multiple chapters in the seventh edition. The link below will take you to his blog Informatics Professor Bob Muenchen MS PSAT is the new Co-Editor of Introduction to Biomedical Data Science. He is an ASA accredited professional statistician and the author of R for SAS and SPSS Users, and co-author of R for Stata Users. He is also the creator of r4stats.com. See his bio in below link

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