A<unk>  <unk>  is a health information technology, provides clinicians, staff, patients, or other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information, to help health and health care. CDS encompasses a variety of tools to enhance<unk> -making in the clinical workflow. These tools include computerized alerts and reminders to care providers and patients; clinical guidelines; condition-specific order sets; focused patient data reports and summaries; documentation templates; diagnostic<unk> , and contextually relevant reference information, among other tools. A working definition has been proposed by Robert Hayward of the Centre for Health Evidence:<unk> s link health observations with health knowledge to influence health choices by clinicians for improved health care".<unk> s constitute a major topic in artificial intelligence in medicine.
Clinical decision support system
Clinical data management system
Clinical trial management system
Patient tracking system
Admission, discharge, and transfer system
Disease registry
Procedure code
Enterprise master patient index