Decision Support System Analysis

Lavin, M, Harper, E., Barr, N., (2015), stated that some of the benefits of EHR system is that as a documentation tool it serves in the provision of data which are useful in enhancing patient safety, evaluating care quality, maximizing efficiency, and measuring staffing needs. An effective EHR system serves to facilitate patient safety and quality improvement by utilizing checklists, alerts, and predictive tools. In additional, embedded in the systems are clinical guidelines that promote standardized of practice that are evidence-based, the ability to do elec-tronic prescribing and test ordering that are effective in reducing errors and redundancy. Cues in the EHR software ensure essential information is recorded and fewer mistakes are made,
This is achievable by improved communication among providers, better coordination of care and the promoting patients' participation in their care process. In terms of financial and management decisions, their report indicated that healthcare organization by using the EHR system, in additional to other reporting programs to obtain reports showing various trends and benchmarks. The data are useful in the decision-making processes both for patients' safety and for financial
In any health care environment, the ordering of mediation can be monitored not only in terms of safety to the patient to also to ensure fiscal responsibility. In ordering, the practitioner can be alerted the cost and suggestion made for a lower cost brand what can get the same result and not compromised the patients' well-being. By adhering to the alerts and making, the required adjustments in ordering these are efforts that can facilitate effective financial management decisions. Alert are also available in areas of ordering laboratory and radiologic testing. The system functions to alert the physician in cases where the test has already been ordered, or that the test is inappropriate for the particular patient.
With the EHR system by utilizing rules-based logic, physicians can examine patients' information and flag for non- compliance with their prescribed wellness or disease management programs and alert the provider or the patient that interventions are due. This feature is far reaching in it application, the patient's quality of health is addressed, preventing a possible decline in well-being with the associated additional cost for hospitalization and addition to the national health care