KLAS Weighs User Experience to Rank Clinical Decision Support Vendors
- Clinical decision support (CDS) vendors aim to improve healthcare delivery by enhancing medical decisions with targeted clinical knowledge. While its use has proven to improve clinical quality outcomes, CDS tools that lack strong content, searchability, and EMR integration are detrimental to the user experience, according to a recent KLAS insight...
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