Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: HIMSS Clinical Decision Support Guidebook Series

Just released: Successor to CDS Implementer’s Guide

HIMSS is pleased to announce that a major new successor to the best-selling book, Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide, has been published. The book, edited by Jerome Osheroff, MD, is co-published by HIMSS, the Scottsdale Institute, AMIA, ISMP, ASHP, and AMDIS.

Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide is the result of a ground-breaking collaboration by dozens of individuals and organizations, with diverse perspectives and competencies. The Guide is designed to help clinical decision support implementers improve medication use (and associated outcomes) in their organizations by providing practical recommendations for successfully implementing CDS focused on these targets.

Chapters include detailed guidance on key areas in an effective CDS-medication management program such as optimizing governance structures and management processes, defining outcome improvement opportunities and baselines; setting up interventions in key clinical information systems and for specific targets; deploying CDS interventions to optimize acceptance and value; measuring results and refining the program; and approaching CDS knowledge management systematically. An appendix includes information on the use of CDS for prescription safety in the small practice environment.

Sponsors
The following organizations provided generous unrestricted grants to help engage editorial support for gathering and synthesizing the input from the many individuals with diverse perspectives that contributed to this project:

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Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide is the award-winning resource designed to help healthcare organizations use clinical decision support (CDS) to measurably improve key healthcare outcomes such as the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of care delivery. It is widely used by CDS implementers as the ‘bible’ for guiding their efforts. The guide can be purchased through the HIMSS online store.

Developed for clinical and information systems leaders in hospitals, clinics, health systems and integrated delivery networks, this book helps organizations:

• Determine their CDS program’s goals and clinical objectives;
• Catalog local information systems’ capabilities to achieve those goals;
• Select the best approach to address the goals with specific CDS interventions;
• Develop the interventions;
• Ensure the interventions are acceptable to stakeholders and put them into practice; and
• Monitor the effectiveness of the CDS program on an ongoing basis.

Some of the features in this book include:

• Discussion of evolving environmental drivers for CDS programs (such as pay-for-performance initiatives and NHII);
• Worksheets to reflect real-world CDS programs;
• Guidance on cost-justification of CDS programs;
• Guidance on selecting interventions;
• A discussion of medico-legal aspects of CDS; and
• Guidance on rolling out CDS programs.

This book includes

• Clear, concise, comprehensive, and practical guidance on setting up a CDS program that will measurably improve key healthcare outcomes and improve patient safety;
• A step-by-step roadmap for clinical and information systems leaders on planning, implementing, and monitoring a CDS program;
• Real-world examples and worksheets to clearly illustrate the steps in the CDS process;
• Worksheets that guide the gathering, synthesis, analysis, and application of data needed to successfully create a healthcare organization’s CDS program;
• Rich links to supportive materials, such as literature on CDS programs and web sites with key data for CDS programs; and
• A robust glossary of terms and acronyms.

This book was developed by the HIMSS Clinical Decision Support Workgroup and Task Force, Chaired by Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, who was also the lead author of the book. Dr. Osheroff is the Chief Clinical Informatics Officer for Thomson Reuters. Other members of the HIMSS CDS Workgroup and co-authors of the book are:

Eric A. Pifer, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer
El Camino Hospital

Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhD, FACMI
Chief Medical Information Officer
Elsevier Health Sciences

Dean F. Sittig, PhD, FACMI
Director of Applied Research, Medical Informatics
Northwest Permanente, Portland, Oregon

Robert A. Jenders, MD, MS, FACP
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Cedars Sinai Medical Center and University of California, Los Angeles
Co-chair, Clinical Decision Support Technical Committee, Health Level Seven

Clinical Decision Support Workbook Sponsors:

This book was supported in part by a grant from Thomson Reuters.

This guide can be purchased through the HIMSS online store. The Front Matter, Introduction, and Chapter 1 are accessible below.

	Front Matter	98 kb
	Introduction	83 kb
	Chapter 1	184 kb
Worksheet Templates The worksheet templates below can be downloaded and adapted to your own organization.
	Worksheet 1-1: Stakeholders, Goals and Objectives
	Worksheet 1-2: Objectives and Performance
	Worksheet 2-1: CIS Inventory
	Worksheet 3-1: Selecting Interventions and Workflow Opportunities of Address Clinical Objectives (through Objective Classes)
	Worksheet 4-1: Intervention Specification Form
	Worksheet 4-2: Specification and Validation Approval Form
	Worksheet 5-1: Pre-launch Testing
	Worksheet 5-2: Intervention Launch Plan
	Worksheet 5-3. Implementation Status
	Worksheet 5-4: Feedback Issues and Resolution
	Worksheet 6-1: Use and Usability Log
	Worksheet 6-2: Performance against Objectives
	Worksheet 6-3: CDS Program Enhancement Plans

Please send any comments, suggestions, corrections, additions to: cdsworkbook@himss.org.

Posted: July 3rd, 2008

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