Clinical Decision Support provides specific information to health care staffs regarding a patient health care record, and this support system will help provide good quality care to the patient. This system has many different tools to help the health care provider an easy ways to care for the patient such as alert system, clinical guidelines, templates, and even more. With this system, I think it benefit the patient care by simply an easy communication for the staffs that are caring for that patient. Those who have access to this can see what is going on to the patient and how to continue on their care for him/her (Health It, n.a).
2. Review Bates’ article on the CDS. Do you think all CDSS (clinical decision support systems) adhere to the 10 commandments set forth? Explain your answer …show more content…
One thing I found that is true is number 7, “Simple Interventions Work Best”. The simple the production is the easier to use. With EPIC, I would it is simple when we are doing the flowsheet/assessment on a patient. For every assessment, there is a already list for you to used and it is so easy and fast. However, with the good, there is of course the bad. At BMC, when we log into EPIC, it would take awhile to the screen to log in or due to small problem. I’m not sure if it’s the computer problem or the program, but I can imagine if it does constant happened, the flow of the work will slow down (Bates, et al.,