1. Clinical Decision Support as a Business Intelligence Application
Yu-Kai Lin
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2. 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
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3. Pillars of Clinical Decision Support
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4. 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)
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5. 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
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6. System Framework
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7. Expected Results A design science IT artifact (Hevner et al., 2004)
Relevant?
Rigor?
Figure 4. Information Systems Research Framework (Hevner et al., 2004)
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