While a variety of information technology (IT) acceptance and use models have been extensively examined and validated in numerous contexts, most studies have been conducted in western cultures, and thus not much is known about the probable moderating role of culture on the relationships between the constructs in those models. To fill this gap in the literature, we propose to empirically investi...

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) are typically constructed from expert knowledge and are often reliant on inputs that are difficult to obtain and on tacit knowledge that only experienced clinicians possess. Research described in this article uses empirical results from a clinical trial of a CDSS with a decision model based on expert knowledge to show that there are differences in how cl...

Introduction/Background A large academic hospital organization with seven affiliates decided to transition from multiple home grown and commercial systems to one commercial electronic health record (EHR). The task to develop a standardized request form that would capture necessary elements of clinical decision support (CDS) was essential to inventory current state CDS, to migrate current state ...

Computer-based decision support in health-care is becoming increasingly important in recent years. Clinical Practise Guidelines (CPGs) are documents supporting health-care professionals in managing treatment of patients in order to avoid non-standard practices or outcomes. Following ideas from publications of Hommersom, Lucas, and Balser, here we promote the use of temporal logics in order for ...

Computerized Physician Order Entry has emerged as the greatest potential to decrease medications errors and improve efficiency. A literature review was conducted in systematic stages that included the research data from the last 25 years. Efficiencies were found with a decrease in overall workload of nurses, pharmacists and clerical workers. This led to decreased operating expenses. A secure wa...

A lack of acceptance has hindered the widespread adoption and implementation of clinical prediction rules (CPRs). The use of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) has been advocated as one way of facilitating a broader dissemination and validation of CPRs. This requires computable models of clinical evidence based on open standards rather than closed proprietary content. The on-going TRANSF...

Appropriateness of AdvancedDiagnostic Imaging Ordering Before andAfter Implementation of Clinical Decision Support Systems Computerized clinical decision support (CDS) systems that match patient characteristics against appropriateness criteria to produce algorithmic treatment recommendations are a potentialmeansof improving care.1,2 TheProtectingAccess to Medicare Act of 2014mandates use of CDS...