Discuss design principles used to facilitate heuristics in a clinical decision support process. Provide a workplace example and offer suggestions to improve the clinical decision support? Provide a rationale for why you made those suggestions.
Heuristic design principles denote that the users stay informed on what is going on (McCoy, Pavlick, & Linzen, 2019). Hence the clinician should have all the necessary relevant information in making decisions. For instance, when providing care to a patient, the patient’s past medical records are essential in helping the clinician decide on the patient’s diagnosis, maintenance, and treatment. In order to improve the patient’s diagnosis, it is necessary to consider any differential diagnosis and critically examine the symptoms and signs that may indicate a more severe illness. Analyzing the symptoms, using past medical records, and exploring the differential diagnosis will help make the correct patient diagnosis. Hence the patient will receive the proper treatment, consequently improving their health.
