Methodologies of Legacy Clinical Decision Support System: A Review

Information technology playing a prominent role in the field of medical by incorporating the clinical decision support system (CDSS) in their routine practices. CDSS is a computer based interactive program to assist the physician to make the right decision at right time. Nowadays, clinical decision support systems are a dynamic research area in the field of computers, but the lack of understanding, as well as functions of the system, make adoption slow by physicians and patients. The literature review of this article focuses on the overview of legacy CDSS, the kind of methodologies and classifiers employed to prepare such a decision support system using a non-technical approach to the physician and the strategy-makers. This article provides understanding of the clinical decision support along with the gateway to physician, and to policy-makers to develop and deploy decision support systems as a healthcare service to make the quick, agile and right decision. Future directions to handle the uncertainties along with the challenges of clinical decision support systems are also enlightened in this study.