Clinical Decision Support Systems The medical industry is a complex practice that filled with a vast amount of information that is used to treat patients properly for their medical concerns and/or conditions. This information can be beneficial to make proper decisions, however if there is a lack of information management it may be difficult to gather necessary data that is required for evaluations and treatments. Clinical decision support (CDS) systems are a computer-based information system designed to assist physicians and other providers in diagnosis and treatment planning (Glandon, Smaltz & Slovensky, 2008). Using applications, such as CDS, do not only organize clinical data but it can also be useful to avoid adverse events. For example, active CDS systems offer clinical reminders and alert tools that can notify providers of drug interactions, drug allergies and other problems that may require attention. Medication error incidents do not only occur in rural or low-income areas; however they can occur in the best hospitals under the care of highly qualified providers if they do not have the appropriate tools to assist with information management. Not even the rich and famous are exempt from medical errors. In 2007, many individuals may recall when actor Dennis Quaid’s twins were given an accidental overdose of a blood-thinning drug that induced a life threating condition. Initially his infants were being treated for a staph infection and only needed the blood-thinning drug to keep their intravenous catheters from clotting. What should have been a routine procedure for this disease turned into a serious condition that could have taken infants lives, because they were given a large dose of the adult version of the blood-thinning drug. When medical facilities have an active CDS system and a medication is ordered and it is an incorrect version of the drug, the clinician will be alerted of the error based on the patient’s data. Fortunately, in this case the infants were able to fully recover but too often patients are not so lucky. Therefo