Purpose: This goal of this study was to evaluate the effects of a data-driven clinical productivity system that leverages Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to provide productivity decision support functionality in a real-world clinical setting. The system was implemented for a large behavioral health care provider seeing over 75,000 distinct clients a year. Design/methodology/approach: The ke...

A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is an interactive tool designed to assist clinicians in making decisions, such as determining a diagnosis. The Isabel Database is a CDSS featuring a clinical checklist and topic-specific knowledge components. This column contains an overview of the database, provides searching tips, and places Isabel within the context of the CDSS field.

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...

Background: In this research, a decision making system, based on fuzzy inference mechanism as proposed by Mamdani, is presented. Literature suggests that there is a lack of consistency among dentists in choosing treatment plan(s). So, this research work aims to facilitate the dentist decide the treatment plan(s) of the broken tooth. Methods: An expert system based on fuzzy logic has been design...

In an effort to reduce the risk of sensitive data exposure in untrusted networks such as the public cloud, increasing attention has recently been given to encryption schemes that allow specific computations to occur on encrypted data, without the need for decryption. This relies on the fact that some encryption algorithms display the property of homomorphism, which allows them to manipulate dat...

Information technology (IT) and Web-based facility have become the major backbone of the modern hospital information systems (HIS) since the beginning of 21st century. Associated with the rapid evolution of medical informatics, the clinical decision support system (CDSS) is playing an important role to help physicians and other healthcare professionals in making decisions while determining diag...

OBJECTIVE To summarize current excellent research in the field of computer-based decision support systems in health and healthcare. METHODS We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2010, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the activity and new trends in the field. RESULTS while the state of the research in the field of medical decision support...

in recent decades, information technology systems and tools play an essential role in improving the method for responding the requests from managers. decision support system as an important tool has the fundamental role in organizations. in the team of software project allocating people to tasks has a noticeable effect on profits. a decision support system can help managers in making appropriat...