Background There is considerable international interest in exploiting the potential of digital
solutions to enhance the quality and safety of health care. Implementations of transformative …

Abstract Background The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
(HITECH) Act subsidizes implementation by hospitals of electronic health records with …

Multimorbidity is a health issue mostly dealt with in primary care practice. As a result of their
generalist and patient-centered approach, long-lasting relationships with patients, and …

Background Many systematic reviews exist on interventions to improve safe and effective
medicines use by consumers, but research is distributed across diseases, populations and …

There is wide variability in the use and adoption of recommendations generated by
computerized clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) despite the benefits they may bring …

Background Clinical practice does not always reflect best practice and evidence, partly
because of unconscious acts of omission, information overload, or inaccessible information …

Background Computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems are
electronic prescribing strategies that are increasingly used to improve patient safety …

Background It is now widely accepted that the mixed effect and success rates of strategies to
improve quality and safety in health care are in part due to the different contexts in which the …

Improving diagnosis and treatment depends on clinical monitoring and computing. Clinical
decision support systems (CDSS) have been in existence for over 50 years. While the …

Background The clinical decision support system (CDSS) has potential to improving
medication safety. However, the effects of the intervention were conflicting and uncertain …