Allmovie gave the film two and a half stars out of five, noting that "Blacula" is "better than its campy title might lead one to believe...the film suffers from the occasional bit of awkward humor (the bits with the two homosexual interior decorators are the most squirm-inducing), but Joan Torres and Raymond Koenig's script keeps things moving at a fast clip and generates some genuine chills." "The Dissolve" gave the film two and a half stars, stating that "The placement of an old-fashioned, Bela Lugosi-type Dracula—albeit much, much sweatier—in a modern black neighborhood is a great idea, but the amateurish production leaves Marshall as stranded in the film as his Mamuwalde is stranded in the times." On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 48% based on , with a weighted average rating of 5.3/10. The box office success of "Blacula" sparked a wave of other black-themed horror films. A sequel to the film titled "Scream Blacula Scream" was released in 1973 by American International. The film also stars William Marshall in the title role along with actress Pam Grier. American International was also planning a follow-up titled "Blackenstein", but chose to focus on "Scream Blacula Scream" instead. "Blackenstein" was eventually produced by Exclusive International Pictures. Clinical decision support system  A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a health information technology system that is designed to provide physicians and other health professionals with clinical decision support (CDS), that is, assistance with clinical decision-making tasks. A working definition has been proposed by Robert Hayward of the Centre for Health Evidence: "Clinical decision support systems link health observations with health knowledge to influence health choices by clinicians for improved health care". CDSSs constitute a major topic in artificial intelligence in medicine. A clinical decision support system has been defined as an "active knowledge systems, which use two or more items of patient data to generate case-specific advice." This implies that a CDSS is simply a decision support system that is focused on using knowledge management in such a way so as to achieve clinical advice for patient care based on multiple items of patient data. The main purpose of modern CDSS is to assist clinicians at the point of care. This means that clinicians interact with a CDSS to help to analyse, and reach a diagnosis based on, patient data. In the early days, CDSSs were conceived of as being used to literally make decisions for the clinician.