Clinical Decision Support systems in medicine use a variety of tools, usually electronic, to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of clinician decision making. Bulletproof Expert Systems is one type of CDS for the physical therapist.
In general, CDS systems provide physical therapists and/or patients with knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at the appropriate time, to enhance health and health care. CDS systems in healthcare have been compared to Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for transportation.
CDS systems use the following electronic tools:
- computerized alerts and reminders to physical therapists and patients
- clinical practice guidelines
- condition-specific order sets
- focused patient data reports and summaries
- documentation templates
- diagnostic support
- contextually relevant reference information
CDS systems may include some paper-based tools, especially documentation templates. Paper-based documentation templates have traditionally been important in the physical therapist’s clinic.
Finally, many physical therapists will recognize the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) as a “template” for a “top-down” CDS focused on some quality metrics typically observed or treated by physical therapists.
More information for the PQRS program is available here.
For more information on CDS in medicine, please visit the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC HIT).
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