Title : Clinical Decision Support System .

Decision Support System (DSS) is an interactive computer-based system or subsystem intended to help decision makers use communications technologies, data documents, knowledge and/or models to identify and solve problems, complete decision process tasks, and make decisions . Decision Support System is a general term for any computer application that enhances a person or group's ability to make decisions . Also, Decision Support Systems refers to an academic field of research that involves designing and studying Decision Support Systems in their context of use . In general Decision Support System that support decision-making activities .

Five more specific Decision Support System types include :

It can be applied to provide information for physicians, students, and other health-care professionals on some diseases . A decision support system which uses a set of clinical findings (signs, symptoms, laboratory data) to produce a ranked list of diagnoses which might explain (or be associated with) the clinical manifestations . It provides justification for why each of these diseases might be considered, suggests what further clinical information would be useful to collect for each disease, and lists what clinical manifestations, if any, would be unusual or atypical for each of the specific diseases .