Who: Corentin Rombaut (Master Business Engineering )
Promotor:** Frederik Gailly
Supervisor: Steven Mertens

Problem description

Clinical decision support (CDS) provides clinicians, staff, patients or other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance health and health care. CDS encompasses a variety of tools to enhance decision-making in the clinical workflow. These tools include computerized alerts and reminders to care providers and patients; clinical guidelines; condition-specific order sets; focused patient data reports and summaries; documentation templates; diagnostic support, and contextually relevant reference information, among other tools.

However, mainstream CDS systems have just a limited notion of the process that is being executed.

Research objectives/approach

In this thesis you will create an overview and classification of CDS systems available in literature based on their focus on the underlying process. In the first phase you will gather information about the types of CDS systems that are available. In the next phase you will have to evaluate the CDS systems based on their support and integration of the underlying processes.

References

  • Berner, E. (2007).Clinical Decision Support Systems. Vasa. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-38319-4
  • Petersen, K. (2011). Measuring and predicting software productivity: A systematic map and review.Information and Software Technology, 53(4), 317–343. doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2010.12.001
  • Johnson, R., Evans, M., Cramer, H., Bennert, K., Morris, R., Eldridge, S., … Feder, G. (2015). Feasibility and impact of a computerised clinical decision support system on investigation and initial management of new onset chest pain: a mixed methods study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 15(1), 71. doi:10.1186/s12911-015-0189-8