Clinical Decision Support System

Clinical Decision Support System

Topic: Using CPOE and CDSS

Assessment Description

For this assignment, select one clinical practice issue that involves a specific medication. Using a Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) system, design a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) that would be embedded in the EHR at your site of practice. Your CDSS must connect with CPOE to include a medication. You must link these two applications within the design.

General Guidelines:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

  • Use primary sources published within the last 5 years. Provide citations and references for all sources used.
  • Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments.
  • You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite to check for similarity scores

Directions:

Provide a  response in 1,000-1,250 words that addresses the following:

  1. Specific details of the clinical issue involving a specific medication
  2. The rationale behind your design development.
  3. A description of how this CDSS will be implemented and adopted by fellow clinicians.
  4. An assessment of challenges and proposed solutions which might apply to this scenario (e.g., information loss, communication breakdown).