OBJECTIVE Clinical decision support (CDS) is a powerful tool for improving healthcare quality and ensuring patient safety; however, effective implementation of CDS requires effective clinical and technical governance structures. The authors sought to determine the range and variety of these governance structures and identify a set of recommended practices through observational study. DESIGN T...

A major challenge facing the developers of intelligent decision-support systems is how to present pertinent information to physicians in such a way that it will be effective in influencing their behavior. The successful integration of medical decision-support systems into clinical environments has been a widely reported problem ever since such systems began to appear. While recognizing these sy...

The quality and safety of health care leaves much to be desired. Automated clinical decision support (CDS) tools embedded in clinical information systems (CISs) such as computer provider order entry (CPOE) and electronic health records (EHR) applications have the potential to improve care and should be part of any comprehensive approach to improve quality. Medication prescribing is a component ...

The importance of information and efficient information management is steadily increasing due to the evolution of new technologies and high-capacity storage media but also because growing market dynamics raise information needs. A marketing decision support system (MDSS) can be of particular importance as it supports organizations in collecting, storing, processing, and disseminating informatio...

Information systems for crisis response and management, including military Command & Control systems, are designed to support their users’ decision-making processes. Decision making can be rational or naturalistic. Psychologists have shown that experienced decision makers under time pressure prefer using naturalistic methods. Case studies of four implemented Command & Control systems show that ...

in this paper we propose and construct fuzzy algebraic additive model, for the estimation of risk in various fields of human activities or nature’s behavior. though the proposed model is useful in a wide range of scientific fields, it was designed for to torrential risk evaluation in the area of river evros. clearly the model’s performance improves when the number of parameters and the actual d...

this paper provides a fuzzy based decision support system (dss) for risk analysis in e-tourism ( electronic tourism ) investment. in general term, e-tourism is the use of information and communication technology (ict) in tourism which may allow operating tourism in least variable cost, least time and increased work efficiency. it is worth noting that there are many factors that affect the deve...

The investment in mutual funds has steadily increased in this decade. This growth has created a need for comprehensive and expandable financial decision support systems (DSS) that embody the knowledge of an expert in making investment decisions. This study illustrates the design and development of an intelligent, object-oriented decision support system: MFS -–Mutual Fund Selector. MFS takes int...

Decision Support System (DSS), a query-based system meant to help decision makers to use a variety of information for decision making, plays a very vital role in sustainable growth of any country. For this very purpose it is essential to analyze the educational system because education is the only way through which people can be made aware as to how to sustain our planet. The purpose of this pa...