Effectiveness of a Decision Support System in Improving the Diagnosis and Screening Rate of Breast Cancer

SEBASTIAN is an example of a clinical decision support technology that supports the latest, service-based architectural approach to CDSS implementation. Developed at Duke University, SEBASTIAN is a clinical decision support Web service whose interface is now the basis of the HL7 Decision Support Service draft standard SEBASTIAN places a standardized interface in front of clinical decision support knowledge modules and makes only limited demands on how relevant patient data are collected or on how decision support inferences are communicated to end-users