BACKGROUND Care for seniors is complex because patients often have more than one disease, one medication, and one physician. It is a key challenge for primary care physicians to structure the various aspects of each patient's care, to integrate each patient's preferences, and to maintain a long-term overview. This article describes the design for the development and feasibility testing of the c...

The healthcare industry collects huge amounts of data which, unfortunately, are not turned into useful information for effective decision making. Clinical Decision support systems (CDSS) can now use advanced technologies such as On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Data Mining to deliver advanced capabilities. This paper presents a prototype CDSS using OLAP with Data Mining (OLAP Mining) wh...

BACKGROUND Although a number of studies have evaluated the effectiveness of computerized decision-support systems (CDSS), there is lack of data on user perspectives, barriers, and facilitators to the implementation of CDSSs in real-life surroundings. The aim of this study was to assess individually perceived barriers, facilitators and ideas influencing the CDSS implementation and usability. M...

Abstract Background Rare Diseases (RDs) are difficult to diagnose. Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) could support the diagnosis for RDs. The Medical Informatics in Research and Medicine (MIRACUM) consortium developed a CDSS RDs based on distributed clinical data from eight German university hospitals. To patient cases, uses different hospitals perform similarity analysis obtain an indic...

This paper proposes a workflow based clinical decision support system(CDSS) incorporating two main parts of CDSSs: 1) clinical workflow to control diagnostic activities and clinical events, and 2) knowledge processing by rule based inference for decisionmaking of clinicians. The requirements of a workflow based CDSS were derived by analyzing SAGE (Standards-Based Sharable Active Guideline Envir...

This study examined the predictive power of data mining algorithms by comparing the performance of a logistic regression algorithm with that of a decision tree algorithm called CHAID (Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detection). Unlike in the previous studies, the decision tree performed better than logistic regression. This paper also demonstrated how another data mining model, called associa...

INTRODUCTION Prescribing medication is an important aspect of almost all in-hospital treatment regimes. Besides their obviously beneficial effects, medicines can also cause adverse drug events (ADE), which increase morbidity, mortality and health care costs. Partially, these ADEs arise from medication errors, e.g. at the prescribing stage. ADEs caused by medication errors are preventable ADEs. ...

background: today, despite the many advances in early detection of diseases, cancer patients have a poor prognosis and the survival rates in them are low. recently, microarray technologies have been used for gathering thousands data about the gene expression level of cancer cells. these types of data are the main indicators in survival prediction of cancer. this study highlights the improvement...

The aim of study is to examine whether social influence affects medical professionals’ behavioral intention to use while introducing a new Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS). The series of Technology Acceptance Models (TAMs) have been widely applied to examine new technology acceptance by scholars; nevertheless, these models omit system diversity and the user’s profession. On the other han...