Newswise — AMIA and Philips Healthcare will co-host a free Webinar focusing on the role and usefulness of clinical decision support (CDS) systems titled, “Decision Support and the Soul of a (Nearly Perfect) Machine.”
CDS has the potential to make a significant positive impact on health care by providing timely guidance to clinicians who are managing the care for more patients while working with smaller staffs. However, in some cases, the uptake and acceptance of CDS systems developed to aid clinicians in their work has been slow.
Presented by Dr. Joe Frassica, chief medical information officer, Patient Care and Clinical Informatics, for Philips Healthcare, this Webinar will examine the limits of human perception and cognition, which successful CDS systems seek to augment. It will also outline some of the strengths of the human brain, which differentiate it from the machines that seek to support it. The underpinnings of successful decision-support systems will be parsed, with reference to knowledge developed in other high-stress environments. Also outlined will be an expanded definition of CDS in the context of work on predictive algorithms, which are aimed at supplementing the clinical intuition of bedside caregivers.
This hour-long Webinar will take place on Wednesday, August 31 at 11:00 a.m. EST. To register, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/443vg36
INTERVIEWS:Interviews are available with: • Dr. Joe Frassica, chief medical information officer, Patient Care and Clinical Informatics, for Philips Healthcare• Dr. Edward H. Shortliffe, AMIA President and CEO
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