[Germany] Impacts of clinical decision support systems on the relationship, communication, and shared decision-making between health care professionals and patients: Multistakeholder interview study

[Germany] Impacts of clinical decision support systems on the relationship, communication, and shared decision-making between health care professionals and patients: Multistakeholder interview study
Journal of Medical Internet Research; Florian Funer, Diana Schneider, Nils B Heyen, Heike Aichinger, Andrea Diana Klausen, Sara Tinnemeyer, Wenke Liedtke, Sabine Salloch, Tanja Bratan; 8/24
Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) are increasingly being introduced into various domains of health care. The results indicate that using CDSSs could restructure established power and decision-making relationships between (future) health care professionals and patients. In addition, respondents expected that the use of CDSSs would involve more communication, so they anticipated an increased time commitment. The results shed new light on the existing discourse by demonstrating that the anticipated impact of CDSSs on the health care professional-patient relationship appears to stem less from the function of a CDSS and more from its integration in the relationship.