[Editorial] Clinical decision making: more than just an algorithm

November, 2017, has seen two seemingly contradictory stories in the headlines: in the UK, the Government has unveiled plans to accelerate access to medicines under a new Accelerated Access pathway; while a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) has shown that more than 70% of clinicians override e-prescribing alerts when being warned of potential drug–drug interactions. This somewhat ironic paradox—in which more drugs are being pushed through to the market, only to be bottlenecked through a system that relies on an automated system of prescription—has potentially conflicting consequences.

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