Automating psychiatric tasks: taking quality to the next level.
Advances in information technology have allowed the creation of databases and decision support systems for behavioral health care as well as other areas of medicine. The authors describe the state of the art in automating behavioral health care tasks and how automated information analyses provided in real time can measurably improve patient outcomes.
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Medical College of Pennsylvania-Hahnemann University, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA. oqsystems.com
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D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D014481:United States