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. 2016:2016:285-288.
doi: 10.1109/ICHI.2016.39.

Big-Data Based Decision-Support Systems to Improve Clinicians' Cognition

Don Roosan  1 , Matthew Samore  2 , Makoto Jones  2 , Yarden Livnat  3 , Justin Clutter  4
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Big-Data Based Decision-Support Systems to Improve Clinicians' Cognition

Don Roosan et al. Proc (IEEE Int Conf Healthc Inform). 2016.

Abstract

Complex clinical decision-making could be facilitated by using population health data to inform clinicians. In two previous studies, we interviewed 16 infectious disease experts to understand complex clinical reasoning. For this study, we focused on answers from the experts on how clinical reasoning can be supported by population-based Big-Data. We found cognitive strategies such as trajectory tracking, perspective taking, and metacognition has the potential to improve clinicians' cognition to deal with complex problems. These cognitive strategies could be supported by population health data, and all have important implications for the design of Big-Data based decision-support tools that could be embedded in electronic health records. Our findings provide directions for task allocation and design of decision-support applications for health care industry development of Big data based decision-support systems.

Keywords: Big-Data; clinical reasoning; population decision support; population health data.

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