A health examination system integrated with clinical decision support system
Journal
Journal of Medical Systems
Journal Volume
34
Journal Issue
5
Pages
829-842
Date Issued
2010
Author(s)
Kuo, K.-L.
Abstract
Health examinations play a key role in preventive medicine. We propose a health examination system named Health Examination Automatic Logic System (HEALS) to assist clinical workers in improving the total quality of health examinations. Quality of automated inference is confirmed by the zero inference error where during 6 months and 14,773 cases. Automated inference time is less than one second per case in contrast to 2 to 5 min for physicians. The most significant result of efficiency evaluation is that 3,494 of 4,356 (80.2%) cases take less than 3 min per case for producing a report summary. In the evaluation of effectiveness, novice physicians got 18% improvement in making decisions with the assistance of our system. We conclude that a health examination system with a clinical decision system can greatly reduce the mundane burden on clinical workers and markedly improve the quality and efficiency of health examination tasks. ? 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
Subjects
Clinical preventive medicine; Decision support systems; Diagnostic errors; Health promotion; Preventive health services
SDGs
Other Subjects
automation; clinical decision making; decision support system; health care quality; medical education; medical examination; physician; review; Computer Systems; Decision Support Systems, Clinical; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Humans; Physical Examination; Program Evaluation; Systems Integration; Taiwan
Type
journal article