Neurophysiologic Decision Support Systems

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Neurophysiologic Decision Support Systems

Michael J. Schmidt, PhD, MSc

Introduction

The field of biomedical informatics can be defined as the scientific discipline that deals with biomedical information, data, and knowledge including their storage, retrieval, and optimal use for problem solving and decision making. The fields of bioinformatics, imaging informatics, clinical informatics, and public health informatics are all grouped under this larger umbrella. Most relevant to this chapter, clinical informatics is motivated by applied problems in clinical care encompassing both patient-specific information and knowledge-based information. The electronic medical record is an application based on patient-specific information, whereas MEDLINE, which is provided by the National Library of Medicine, is a key resource for health-related knowledge retrieval. A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a computer program designed to help clinicians make diagnoses or management decisions and often relies on both patient-specific and knowledge-based information.