Improving Cost-Effectiveness Of Clinical Decision Support Systems

Clinical decision support systems are essential to improve cost-effectiveness of overall health care systems, especially since the cost of health care for age related diseases such as cancer is significantly increasing due to aging population.
In medical applications, clinical decision support system helps clinicians to improve their clinical decision making. Clinicians are also overwhelmed by a tsunami of data for each single patient. Clinical data on patient history, tumor characteristics, laboratory analysis, ultrasound parameters, or environment factors are more easily accessible. Information obtained from genome, proteome, transcriptome, contributes to personalize medicine equally well. This enables clinicians to make decisions regarding