1. Why is this scenario an example of clinical decision support? a. This is an example of CDS because by Wikipedia definition is “is an interactive decision support system which is designed to assist clinician with making decision making task and determining diagnosis of patient data” This scenario shows how clinician at this hospital are interacting with the system to make real time decision concerning patient care.

2. What would be a benefit of the clinical decision support? b. It has the potential to reduce errors, which means improved health care. CDS also has the ability to streamline processes from clinicians, such as billing, medical records, orders, prescription filling process. It can also help with Clinicians decide on the best course of action concerning a treatment for a patient, or which medication he should receive, or how often he should receive it. 3. Should CDSS allow provider overrides? Why? Why not? c. Yes, I believe CDSS is nothing more than a machine; it is only as good as the provider using it. To not allow a provider to override a CDSS is to assume two things, First that it would be ok for an ordinary machine such as car to override its user, instead of slowing down it decides to speed up and try to make the yellow light because it realizes that the driver is late for an appointment, or how about when a man is driving his injured family member to the hospital and is speeding, would it be ok for the car to decide for the safety of all to slow down and perhaps not make it to the hospital on time to safe the man’s family member . i. The second point is when we allow a machine to override a provider, have we totally taken away the human element in medicine, the training the timing, all the things you don’t learn from a text book or a form.

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