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Medical Decision Support Systems: Old Dilemmas and new Paradigms?

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this paper is to examine past and present medical decision support systems and the environment in which they operate and to propose specific research tracks that improve integration and adoption of these systems in today's health care systems. METHODS: In preamble, we examine the objectives, decision models, and performances of past decision support systems. RESULTS: Medical decision support tools were essentially formulated from a technical capability perspective and this view has met limited adoption and slowed down new development as well as integration of these important systems into patient management work flows and clinical information systems...

Keywords: Medical decision support systems, Evidence-based Medicine, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Medical prac-tice, shared decision-making, patient empowerment, technology adoption barriers and drivers.