Across which three conceptual domains was the invention of CDSS historically distributed?
Expert systems (AI), specific application to diagnosis (medicine), and necessary infrastructure (early computing)
The genesis of Clinical Decision Support Systems was not attributable to a single inventor or patent but rather emerged from the intersection and confluence of several distinct, yet necessary, fields of study and development. The first domain involved Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, which provided the theoretical basis for expert systems capable of symbolic reasoning. The second crucial domain was medicine itself, providing the specific application—clinical diagnosis and treatment guidance—that the technology was meant to serve. Finally, the necessary infrastructure domain, involving the capabilities of early computing power, mainframes, and specialized workstations, provided the platform upon which these initial, functional demonstrations could run. The success required alignment across these three areas.
