Presentation #2 will provide a description of the newly evolving hospital office of decision support staff and its multiple roles in assessing clinical and community environmentally caused disease. Providing information on the necessary skills and equipment staff need to carry out decision support tasks. This presentation will demonstrate how associated costs and incidents of diseases can be tracked over time to gain a better perspective on the level of environmentally caused diseases within the community. This presentation using the analysis of hospital records of those community members experiencing respiratory distress will describe the unique benefits of hospitals and clinics establishing and maintaining offices of decision support to interface between clinicians and hospital administration and records associated with environmental health.
Learning Objectives: 1) identify the role of a hospital or clinic decision support staff. 2) list the typical equipment and software typically used by this office. 3) give an example of how the decision support system can be utilized to assess environmentally caused diseases in the community
Keywords: Air Pollutants, Community-Based Health Care
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: St. Mary's Health Care System
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.