show an exemplary integration of decision support functionality with an hcp emr workflow the traditional workflow consists of several tasks such as history of present illness hpi 102 review of systems ros 104 past family medical and social history pmfsh 106 physical exam 108 laboratory orders 110 diagnosis dx 112 medication orders rx 114 review narrative 116 and complete patient 118 tasks may be added removed skipped combined or split without changing the basic nature of this flow the arrows in the figures illustrate a common task order although systems may allow other orders or allow random access between tasks the extended workflow adds the ability to view and interact decision support information regarding the current patient by a providing the decision support information associated with each traditional task while some or all traditional tasks are being performed and or b providing a u201c context sensitive u201d link from each task to the associated decision support information in a particular embodiment the system integrates decision support information with a template based electronic medical records emr system by simultaneously displaying the template information and related decision support information some embodiments will simultaneously display template information findings information and related decision support information template information is information that prompts or enables the user to enter findings information and is selected for display based on criteria including the patient 39 s chief complaint e g u201c chest pain u201d or u201c sore throat u201d or the current task e g u201c history of present illness u201d or u201c selected diagnosis u201d or both template information to be displayed may also be selected based on factors such as demographic information about.