EHR Intelligence April 16, 2021
Clinical decision support alerts are often helpful to EHR users, but they are also primarily linked to clinician burden and alert fatigue.
Clinical decision support (CDS) alerts may not seem significant on the surface, but these alerts have the potential to save patient lives.
CDS alerts permit clinicians to access real-time patient data, ideally resulting in enhanced patient safety and medication accuracy. CDS alerts can also notify clinicians about potential patient warnings to prevent errors and additional adverse drug events from occurring.
While EHRs are directly associated with clinician burnout, CDS tools aim to aid clinicians.
According to researchers, CDS is an essential aspect of EHRs that is “not merely the use of technology; it uses technology to find meaningful...
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