Designing the Right Framework for Healthcare Decision Support

Abstract

Many factors need to be taken into consideration while developing a decision support system for healthcare. This mainly involves: a) adherence to statutory regulations, b) ease of use and access, and c) protecting patient data from malicious use. Some of these requirements are intertwined creating a myriad of complexities. This leads to a substantial increase in the level of complexity involved in designing and developing the decision support system. In this paper we attempt to address some of these complexities to the reader and present a framework for a solution that could be modified if required to deal with these aforementioned complexities.