Discussion: Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)

Prompt:

CDSS have been used by the medical care team and other healthcare professionals as a key health informatics application for quite some time.

Questions:

1. Appraise the importance of CDSS data analytics and the context and relevance to the provider and payer business processes.
2. What are the clinical decision support systems?
3. How do physicians, healthcare team members, and other professional staff use them to improve clinical care and performance, considering the challenges of CDSS?
4. How do the CDSS needs of physicians, nurses, and other business staff members differ? and In what ways are they the same?
5. Describe elements of an effective informatics knowledge-based CDSS for problem-solving with data.
6. Assess the complexities and challenges related to health informatics and data management using CDSS.