2. What are the pros and cons of clinical decision support systems?

The nature of clinical decision support systems. In providing physicians and medical staff with expert-level data analysis, intelligence and solution modeling, is to streamline their tasks and get more effective care to the patient. The proofs or advantages of these systems include indications their analysis and prognosis is very high relative to manual methods (Hickman, Smaltz, 2008), the state-of-the-art levels of integration to pharmacy and billing workflows including Medicare are real-time (Tan, Payton, 2010) and the level of real-time integration to 3rd party databases and internal records is accurate and reliable (Hickman, Smaltz, 2008). Taken together these factors create a highly effective clinical decision support system that can revolutionize how healthcare providers get the most out of their information assets. The cons or disadvantages of clinical decision support systems include a lack of user adoption in the majority of failed or only mediocre-performing...

These three cons of clinical decision making systems are what slow down their use by other healthcare providers, as many will look at the software platforms and vendors offering them, wanting to see proof of results. As the adoption rate of these systems increases, there will be more case studies of actual results, which wills serve to increase the trust level in clinical decision support systems over the long-term.
References

Hickman, G.T., Smaltz, DH (2008). The Healthcare Information Technology Planning Field book: Tactics, Tools and Templates for Building your it Plan. Chicago: HIMSS. ISBN 978-0-9800697-1-6.

Tan, J., Payton, F.C. (2010). Adaptive Health Management Information Systems: Concepts Cases and Practical Applications (3rd ed.). Boston: Jones and Bartlett. ISBN…