Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) integrate patient data, medical expertise, and inference engines to generate case-specific advice to assist medical professionals. CDSS can help reduce adverse drug reactions, which are the fourth leading cause of death, and enable remote patient monitoring. A CDSS captures the knowledge of expert clinicians, notifies healthcare providers of drug interactions and abnormal test results, and aims to improve patient care.

1. Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS)
Suresh Arora
suresh.arora@opendatalabs.in

2. Overview
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 Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) is the 4th leading cause of death
ahead of pulmonary disease, diabetes, AIDS, Pneumonia, accid
ents and automobile deaths
 Remote patient monitoring at Rural medical centers
Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) can help in reducing ADR
and also in enabling Remote Patient monitoring

3. Definition
 Clinical Decision Support Systems are "active knowledge systems which use two
or more items of patient data to generate case-specific advice.
 A clinical decision support system integrates the expert medical advice , patient
related information and inference engine to prepare case based analysis which
assists medical and health professionals in the decision making process , such as
diagnosing and designing the treatment plan for a disease or a condition
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4. Goals of CDSS
 To capture the knowledge of a master clinician
 CDSS can notify health care professionals of drug-drug interactions, contraindic
ated drugs, alternative medications, costs of interventions and abnormal labora
tory results
 CDSS provide an opportunity to improve care
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5. CDSS
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6. CDSS
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7. Topology
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8. References
 http://www.slideshare.net/hariindian/clinical-decision-support-
by-hari
 http://docslide.us/documents/clinical-decision-support-
system.html
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9. Thank you