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Medication safety and rational pharmacotherapy using specific disease and patient characteristics are central aspects in current healthcare practice. With increasing knowledge of different factors influencing pharmacotherapy, CDS is becoming increasingly important as an aid to reach optimal outcomes for the individual patient. CDS systems can be defined as any system that provides clinical knowledge and intelligently filtered patient information to clinicians or patients for making clinical decisions at the point in time that these decisions have to be made.