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Article: When the computer offers advice: behavioral health stakeholders have mixed feelings about clinical decision support systems.(VIEWS ON TECHNOLOGY)
- Article from:
- Behavioral Healthcare
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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You are probably familiar with the benefits of electronic health records (EHRs)--legible data, ubiquitous access, increased security, reduced long-term costs, etc. One of the most challenging benefits to implement is a clinical decision support system (CDSS). Our staffs need these systems because, as OpenClinical.org points out, "It is now humanly impossible for unaided healthcare professionals to deliver patient care with the efficacy, consistency and safety that the full range of current knowledge could support."
Before we had EHRs, we couldn't even consider implementing a CDSS. Paper records are static and unidirectional. What is written on a page can only be ...