Decision Support News
D. J. Power, Editor
May 29, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 11
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1) Can computerized decision support encourage health literacy?
2) Recent Decision Support News Headlines
3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers
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1) Can computerized decision support encourage health literacy?
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by Daniel J. Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
People make poor health choices for many reasons (Carrera, 2014).
One reason is a lack of information and knowledge. Computerized decision aids can potentially help reduce the health knowledge gap. It is difficult to determine how much impact providing decision aids and decision support will have on improving the health of a population. A cynical or pessimistic person might quickly say the impact will be insignificant. Promoting technological solutions to improving health decisions might even seem trendy or self-serving on the part of app developers.
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2) Recent Decision Support Headlines
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05/27/2016 Business Intelligence vendor Yellowfin to host data visualization best practice webinar series. Check release.
05/26/2016 Call for papers: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Check release.
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3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers/Books
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1. 2016 Open Conference of the IFIP WG 8, June 22-24, 2016, University College Cork, Ireland. Check here.
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