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Title Clinical decision support : the road ahead / edited by Robert A. Greenes
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2007
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 581 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Clinical decision support -- What it is and why important -- A brief history of the field -- Types of computer-aided decision making -- Case studies -- Regenstrief experience -- Brigham experience -- LDS HELP experience -- Lessons learned, summary -- Where are we now? -- Penetration -- Limitations -- New motivations and interest -- Where does the knowledge come from? -- Expert knowledge -- Data mining and predictive modeling -- Evidence-based medicine -- Problems in developing decision support applications -- Representation of the knowledge -- Integration with host environments -- Managing the knowledge: authoring and update -- Standards efforts -- Arden syntax -- Guidelines -- GELLO -- Vocabularies and data models -- Process/workflow models -- Issues -- Top-down vs. bottom-up approaches -- Legacy investments -- Differences among models and purposes -- Institutional KM challenges -- Getting a handle on the problem -- Content management and collaborative authoring/editing -- Common representation -- Common interfaces/transaction services -- Tools for knowledge management -- A timetable of opportunities -- Rules knowledge -- General expressions/calculation/logic -- Knowledge element groups -- Order sets -- Reports and data entry forms -- Prospects for dissemination and sharing -- Knowledge as a universal commodity not a proprietary resource -- Attempts to establish consortia -- What is needed to overcome barriers
Summary This book examines the nature of medical knowledge, how it is obtained, and how it can be used for decision support. It provides complete coverage of computational approaches to clinical decision-making. Chapters discuss data integration into healthcare information systems and delivery to point of care for providers, as well as facilitation of direct to consumer access. A case study section highlights critical lessons learned, while another portion of the work examines biostatistical methods including data mining, predictive modelling, and analysis. This book additionally addresses organizational, technical, and business challenges in order to successfully implement a computer-aided decision-making support system in healthcare delivery
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Kursbok
English
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Subject Diagnosis -- Decision making -- Data processing
Clinical medicine -- Decision making -- Data processing
Problem solving.
Decision Support Systems, Clinical -- trends
Clinical Medicine -- trends
Delivery of Health Care -- trends
Medical Informatics Applications
Problem Solving
MEDICAL -- Diagnostic Imaging.
MEDICAL -- Diagnosis.
Clinical medicine -- Decision making -- Data processing
Diagnosis -- Decision making -- Data processing
Diagnosesystem
Entscheidungsfindung
Besliskunde.
Geneeskunde.
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Greenes, Robert A., 1940-
ISBN 9780080467696
0080467695
1280746882
9781280746888
9786610746880
6610746885