TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction to the special issue on decision support in medicine
AU - Leroy, Gondy
AU - Chen, Hsinchun
N1 - Funding Information:
Gondy Leroy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate University. She received her PhD degree in Management Information System from the University of Arizona in 2003. Her research interests are in natural language processing, medical informatics, text mining and information retrieval. She has published research articles in several journals including ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Journal of the American Society for Information Systems and Technology and the International Journal of Medical Informatics. She has received research funding from the National Library of Medicine and the Verizon Foundation (email: [email protected] , URL: http://ist.cgu.edu/faculty/ ).
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - Information technology plays an important role in medicine because of the advanced decision support systems (DSS) it can provide. We provide an overview of the building blocks necessary for a medical decision support system and introduce seven research articles in this special issue that describe the development and evaluation of individual medical DSS building blocks or complete medical DSS.
AB - Information technology plays an important role in medicine because of the advanced decision support systems (DSS) it can provide. We provide an overview of the building blocks necessary for a medical decision support system and introduce seven research articles in this special issue that describe the development and evaluation of individual medical DSS building blocks or complete medical DSS.
KW - Medical decision support system
KW - Medicine
KW - Overview
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U2 - 10.1016/j.dss.2006.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.dss.2006.02.001
M3 - Editorial
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SN - 0167-9236
VL - 43
SP - 1203
EP - 1206
JO - Decision Support Systems
JF - Decision Support Systems
IS - 4
ER -