Development of a SNOMED CT based national medication decision support system.
Physicians often lack the time to familiarize themselves with the details of particular allergies or other drug restrictions. Clinical Decision Support (CDS), based on a structured terminology as SNOMED CT (SCT), can help physicians get an overview, by automatically alerting allergy, interactions and other important information. The centralized CDS platform based on SCT, controls Allergy, Interactions, Risk Situation Drugs and Max Dose restrictions by the help of databases developed for these specific purposes. The CDS will respond to automatic web service requests from the hospital or GP electronic medication system (EMS) during prescription, and return alerts and information. The CDS also contains a Physicians Preference Database where the physicians individually can set which kind of alerts they want to see. The result is clinically useful information physicians can use as a base for a more effective and safer treatment, without developing alert fatigue.
Standards and it-architecture, Division of National Board of e-Health, Denmark.
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D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003718:Denmark; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D050316:Medical Order Entry Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D014584:User-Computer Interface