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Description:
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CEMS can be queried about diagnosis and treatment of patients when queried and the monitoring function identifies and sends notifications about non-standard practices and abnormal results.
CEMS supports input clinical functions (evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, outcome assessment) by allowing queries (e.g., of treatment protocols) and by monitoring data in the central medical database for adherence to more than 100 practice guidelines. Alert messages are sent to clinicians when a practice does not follow the guideline, and a response is generated by changing the not-standard practice (e.g., change in diagnosis, ordering a required laboratory test) or completing an on-line form to document the rationale for the deviation from the standard. The central database contains all diagnoses, the diagnostic criteria selected to support each diagnosis, all laboratory orders and results, all pharmacy orders (current and historical), and selected demographic and payment data.
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