Thoughts on Clinical Decision Support and its Future:  Dr Greenes Interview

In two of my last blog posts, I have interviewed people and companies working in the support and implementation of decision support. With this blog post, I have the honor of interviewing Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD, one of the first and leading researchers in clinical decision support (CDS) and my former CDS professor. He started as a co-developer of MUMPS in the 1960s while at Harvard Medical School and from there has been and continues to be involved in all aspects of CDS. One of his latest works has been editing and writing chapters for the first and second editions of Clinical Decision Support, The Road to Broad Adoption. He also was a practicing radiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston until 2007, when he became chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University. He stepped down as chair in 2014, and is still a professor at ASU as well as on the staff of the Mayo Clinic. He states that his passion is the use of information technology in health care to make "the right thing the easy thing to do.” Bridget: In Clinical Decision Support, the Road to Broad Adoption, you define computer based clinical decision support (CDS) as “the use of information and communications technology to bring relevant knowledge to bear on the health care and well-being of a patient.” The FDA has recently released some draft preliminary guidance on clinical decision support and in that document, they have further clarified the types of CDS t...
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