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Special issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Associationexplores various issues related to health IT and clinical decision support.J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014;21:e180-e375.

Health IT and Clinical Decision Support Systems.

Ohno-Machado L, ed. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014;21:e180-e375.

A universal agreement on how to calculate the return on investment for health information technology (IT) and computerized decision support systems still needs to be established. Articles in this special issue cover research exploring evaluation models, effects of medication alerts, and usability as potential components of determining the value of health IT.

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