Clinical Decision Support at Intermountain Healthcare

Abstract

Decision support technologies are becoming increasingly available to medical practitioners. A variety of programs designed to assist with drug dosing, health maintenance, diagnosis, and other clinically relevant healthcare decisions have been developed for the medical workplace. Increasing ease of access to personal computers is partially responsible for this growth. More important, however, is the growing dependency on computers to maintain part or all of the medical record.This has led to a growing interest in and, in some cases, dependency on, automated medical decision making to support the delivery of economical, quality care.