Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is defined broadly as a clinical system, application or process that helps health professionals make clinical decisions to enhance patient care. Clinical knowledge of interest could range from simple facts and relationships to best practices for managing patients with specific disease states, new medical knowledge from clinical research and other types of information.
Visit the CDS wiki to see what is happening in CDS and Beers Criteria, Meaningful Use, Maintaining Problem Lists of current and active diagnoses and more.
Linking HIMSS CDS Implementation Guidance to Meaningful Use Criteria
Many of the criteria for achieving the 'meaningful use' of EHRs that are required for providers to receive stimulus funding under ARRA depend directly, or are facilitated by, successful CDS deployment. HIMSS has provided extensive guidance for successful CDS implementation, and under this project we are assembling portions of this guidance that speak directly to individual meaningful use requirements.
Maintaining a Problem Lists of current and active diagnoses.
Use of high risk medications in the elderly (Beers Criteria)
Applying CDS to VTE
Visitors to the wiki will find the results of nearly a year’s worth of Task Force effort, focused primarily on sharing best CDS practices for optimizing VTE prophylaxis. The Task Force hopes that new participants will find the VTE/CDS information valuable for their own efforts, appreciate that the current material is more of a beginning than and endpoint, and participate actively in refining and expanding it.
Visit the HIMSS CDS wiki to find additional resources on CDS, VTE, news releases and CDS publications.
For more information regarding CDS, please contact David Collins.
Latest News:
E-Prescribing And CDS: "Quick" Information, Riding The HIMSS Wiki Wave
Medical News Today (6/1/09)
Army College Adds EMR Systems to the Syllabus
Army College is introducing several new efforts in training students in systems that utilize information security, as well as medical communications and electronic medical records.
Collaboration for Clinical Decision Support: An International Movement Toward Clinical Transformation
The Scottsdale Institute as convener and facilitator has helped create and
lead an international collaborative effort to better implement CDS in hospitals and
health systems as the key tool in preventing medication errors, improving care
quality and addressing changes in reimbursement signaled by “Never Events” and “Present on Admission.”
