Running head: HEALTH ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTIONTECHNOLOGIES THAT IMPROVE HEALTHCARE-Clinical decision support systemsName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1HEALTH ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTIONTechnologies have always been an integral part in the provision of healthcare sincethe industrial age. Advent of technologies that allows imaging of the internal organs of thebody (like X ray, magnetic resonance scanners) allows a non invasive method to look into thehuman body, and diagnose effectively. Technologies enabled a faster processing ofinformation and arranging them hierarchically. The latest technical advancements haveseamlessly integrated in various aspects of healthcare like: Care models, DiseaseManagement, Technological Infrastructure and even the Payment Methods. This evidentlyhelped the patients to receive a better care, and for healthcare professionals to provide a bettercare, and simplified the steps in between much simpler and convenient.Clinical Decisions Support System is one such technology in the field of HealthInformation Management. This technology provides a Clinical Decision Support (CDS) forhealthcare professionals and physicians. The technology links clinical observation to clinicalknowledge, thereby providing healthcare choices that can be utilized by the caregivers. Thetechnology utilizes artificial intelligence. This ensures that the clinical decisions are madewith minimum margin of error, and thus a better healthcare (Berner, 2007). Therefore, thistechnology can be of real help for clinicians, physicians, healthcare professionals whilemaking clinical decisions, to provide an effective differential diagnosis, antibioticmanagement, anticoagulation dosage recommendation, based on the clinical informationentered, and linking that to the knowledgebase and arriving at decisions based on that(Trowbridge, & Weingarten, 2001).The main benefits of this technology in healthcare can be divided into threecategories:
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