Clinical Decision Support can mean a myriad of different things depending on the perspective, role, and experience of the person whose opinion is being solicited. The following domain storyboards serve to illustrate possible applications for a knowledge management platform such as Socrates within our healthcare delivery system. Several of the scenarios borrow heavily from those described in the HL7 Decision Support Service (DSS) Service Functional Model Version 1.0. These are centered on a provider named David - we We have both embellished and simplified these scenarios to clarify context . We remain deeply indebted and remain indebted to this ground-breaking effort; attribution . Attribution is provided for the entire scenario in lieu of quoting text that we have repurposed verbatim.
David is dual boarded as an internist and a pulmonologist. He is the informatics domain expert at Healthcare Plan “A” (HP A) and is responsible for creating clinical guidelines for his institution’s decision support system (DSS A).