Background: Despite increasing emphasis on the role of clinical decision-support systems
(CDSSs) for improving care and reducing costs, evidence to support widespread use is …

Many computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems have integrated drug safety
alerts. The authors reviewed the literature on physician response to drug safety alerts and …

While evidence-based medicine has increasingly broad-based support in health care, it
remains difficult to get physicians to actually practice it. Across most domains in medicine …

This essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of
information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the …

PURPOSE: Electronic medical record systems improve the quality of patient care and
decrease medical errors, but their financial effects have not been as well documented. The …

This document comprises an AMIA Board of Directors approved White Paper that presents a
roadmap for national action on clinical decision support. It is published in JAMIA for archival …

Background The opportunity to improve care by delivering decision support to clinicians at
the point of care represents one of the main incentives for implementing sophisticated …

Several analyses have detected substantial quality problems throughout the health care
system. Information technology has consistently been identified as an important component …

Objective: Although computerized physician order entry (CPOE) may decrease errors and
improve quality, hospital adoption has been slow. The high costs and limited data on …

Background Clinical decision support (CDS) is a valuable tool for improving healthcare
quality and lowering costs. However, there is no comprehensive taxonomy of types of CDS …