Although the CPOE system recently installed in our ICU has access to our locally produced on-line formulary (which includes local guidelines), IV guide (advising how to safely administer intravenous medications), drug interactions, contraindications and side effects, these are for information only and decision support capability does not exist.
There is a pressing need for high-quality, effective means of designing, developing, presenting, implementing, evaluating, and maintaining all types of clinical decision support capabilities for clinicians, patients and consumers.
The workgroup indicated the importance of clarifying the needs and opportunities for integrating CDS tools to address personalized medicine as EHR systems begin to offer decision support capabilities and adoption of their use increases.
This ongoing development of ESSs also benefits from developments of decision support capabilities [7],[9], classification algorithms [3],[10], and regression models [11].
The pain management decision support system (PM-DSS), a CDSS and subsystem of healthcare or hospital information systems (HIS), provides decision support capabilities to healthcare professionals during patient pain management.
This ongoing development of ESSs also benefits from developments of decision support capabilities [ 7, 9], classification algorithms [ 3, 10], and regression models [ 11].
