Analysis of Ten Commandments for Effective Clinical Support
Decisions in the healthcare fraternity over the years relied on knowledge gathered by pioneer health professionals. However, in recent years’ focus has shifted towards evidence-based practice with an emphasis on decision support. Despite efforts to transform the process of clinical decisions into evidence-based, there are still gaps in clinician support concerning the utilization of information system to aid healthcare professionals. Consequently, this paper seeks to analyze three of the ten commandments for effective clinical decision support in the utilization of information systems in clinical decision support.
Information systems offering clinical support to healthcare professionals have Ten Commandments in the event of achieving effectiveness. According to Bates et al. (2003), these commandments aid information systems in achieving efficiency in enabling clinician support during health care decisions. In this excerpt, however, discussion of three commandments will occur to determine their importance in terms of organizational strategy and value. The first commandment in this except is “speed is everything”. The commandment defines the speed of an information system as the critical component in the effecting efficiency in clinical decision support.
Concerning this commandment, therefore, the speed of information system adds more value to the clinician support if indeed it is higher. In the case of higher speeds, the clinician can perform tasks simultaneously and derive references without time wastage. The attribute is essential also eradicating patient delays in waiting bays due to slower speeds. Another commandment that is essential in deriving efficiency in clinical decision support is to “anticipate needs and deliver in time”. In this context, the information system should possess the skills of being able to analyze the needs of the clinician and guarantee a response in time. This attribute aids the clinician in critical thinking, reducing the impact of clinical dilemmas in healthcare situations.
The third commandment of importance in this quest is “Monitor impact get feedback and respond”. The commandment denotes that in instances when many high priorities are availed to the clinicians, in some cases the very important directions are omitted. Therefore, the system must possess a capability to monitor the impact of the direction, analyze it, and provide an effective response to the task. In conclusion, theses three commandments are important to any organizational culture as well as values as they directly influence service delivery to the consumer, which the most important concept in any business environment.
References
Bates, D. W., Kuperman, G. J., Wang, S., Gandhi, T., Kittler, A., Volk, L., … & Middleton, B. (2003). Ten commandments for effective clinical decision support: making the practice of evidence-based medicine a reality. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 10(6), 523-530.