COVID-19 cost pressures, system updates and the urge to standardize care have pushed hospitals and health systems to reevaluate their existing clinical decision support tools, according to a recent KLAS Research report.
For its CDS Point of Care Reference 2021 report, KLAS interviewed thousands of healthcare professionals over the past year to understand their satisfaction with and perceptions of their clinical decision support platforms.
Here are five clinical decision support platforms' overall product scores, based on a 100-point scale. Scores with an asterisk represent a platform that had limited data for the analysis.
- EBSCO Information Services: 91.7
- EBSCO & IBM's DynaMed and Micromedex: 89.1*
- Wolters Kluwer: 87.9
- IBM Watson Health: 87.4
- Elsevier: 84.0
Here are five clinical decision support platforms' scores for driving tangible outcomes, based on a nine-point scale. Scores with an asterisk represent a platform that had limited data for the analysis.
- EBSCO Information Services: 8.2
- EBSCO & IBM's DynaMed and Micromedex: 7.7
- Wolters Kluwer: 7.6
- IBM Watson Health: 7.7
- Elsevier: 7.1