Clinical Decision Support as a Business Intelligence Application Yu-Kai Lin 11/11/2018
Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) CDSS is an information system (IS) which aims to provide clinical recommendations, reduce clinical errors, and ultimately, improve patients’ health. Benefit Better treatments effective hospital administration Enhancing revenues Challenges Scope and complexity 11/11/2018
Pillars of Clinical Decision Support 11/11/2018
Literature Review Medical informatics viewpoints IS viewpoints Disease-specific treatments (Austin et al., 2010; Moskovitch & Shahar, 2009a; Verplancke et al., 2008) Clinical patterns (Bath et al., 2005; Moskovitch & Shahar, 2009b; Toma et al., 2008) Risk assessment (M. Remm & K. Remm, 2008; Roukema et al., 2008; Silva et al., 2008; Smith et al., 2009) IS viewpoints Knowledge Management (Chen et al., 2005) Decision Support Systems (Garg et al., 2005) Business Intelligence (Eggers et al., 2005) 11/11/2018
Methods Data Evaluation A medium-size hospital in Northern Taiwan 894,061 patients who visited the hospital during August 2007 and July 2010, covering outpatients, inpatients, emergency rooms, and operations. Evaluation 11/11/2018
System Framework 11/11/2018
Expected Results A design science IT artifact (Hevner et al., 2004) Relevant? Rigor? Figure 4. Information Systems Research Framework (Hevner et al., 2004) 11/11/2018