A clinical decision support needs assessment of coummunity-based physicians

In the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association article by Richardson and Ash was written to

1. 1. Introduction##

What does Clinical Decision Support (CDS) provide with knowledge and person-based information, intelligently filtered and presented at appropriate times. CDS can provide enhance health and healthcare.

CDS supports this knowledge to:

1. Clinician
2. Staff
3. Patients
4. Other individuals

The goal of the study was to provide a user-centered perspective that could help developers optimize CDS functions to meet the needs of physicians in a community-based setting.

1. 1. Methods/Results##

Study was to gain insight into the following

1. goals
2. Environments
3. Tasks
4. Desired support tools

How study conducted was with Human-computer interaction

1. 30 recorded interviews
2. 25 Observations - primary care providers
3. 15 Observations - Urban and rural community based clinics

1. 1. Conclusion##

Findings from the study was physicians feel that the decision support needs to be extended from current process. Two other discussions where brought up by the physicians and they where

1. Clinical Decision-making
2. Cognitive decision-making

1. 1. Comments##

1. 1. Reference##

Richardson, J. E., & Ash, J. S. (2011). A clinical decision support needs assessment of community-based physicians. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 18(Supplement 1), i28-i35.