In the chapter we are presenting the theoretical background, state of the art and modern research trends of Clinical decision support systems (CDSS). The challenges for success are derived and our experience is described with the presentation of a good practice example of employing CDSS in telemedicine. CDSS systems are increasingly often integrated into telemedicine clinical practice. In addit...

Decision support systems (DSS) are a subset of computer-based information systems (CBIS). The general term 'computer-based information systems' is a constellation of a variety of information systems such as office automation systems, transaction processing systems, management information systems and management support systems. Management support systems consist of DSS, expert systems and execut...

INTRODUCTION Since the late 1960s, researchers have been developing and implementing computerized systems to support management decision makers. A number of decision support system (DSS) typologies were proposed in the early 1980s (Alter, 1980; Sprague & Carlson, 1982), but technology developments and new applications led to an expanded DSS framework (Power, 2000a, 2000b, 2001). The expanded DS...

World-Wide Web technologies have rapidly transformed the entire design, development and implementation process for all types of Decision Support Systems. In particular, Web technologies have provided a new media for sharing information about decision support and a new means of delivering decision support capabilities. For DSS developers, the big leap forward is to use the “Web as computer”.

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In this paper we examine characteristics common to successful intelligent decision support systems. In doing this, we attempt to bridge the gap between disparate communities engaged in building various parts of these systems. Three systems were examined in detail from widely different applications and more than 20 additional systems were considered at a lower level of detail. By examining deplo...

Environmental Studies and Artificial Intelligence are both of strategic interest. Both areas can provide society with nice solutions for many real applications, in order to protect the environment. The encounter between these fields is a new challenge for many researchers of both communities. In the foreword of the Environmental Science and Engineering for the 21st Century report [6], we can re...

IntroductIon The subject of our research aims to support in the most suitable way the collaborative decision-making process. Several scientific approaches deal with collaborative decision-making: deci-developing different analytical tools for optimal decision-making; in management sciences the observation of decision-making styles activ-For BLOCKINthe BLOCKINcollaborative BLOCKINdecision-making...

If you ask people what the phrase “computers in medicine” means, they often describe a computer program that helps physicians to make diagnoses. Although computers play numerous important clinical roles, from the earliest days of computing people have recognized that computers might support health-care workrs by helping these people to sift through the vast collection of possible diseases and s...