Steering Committee

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A Roadmap for National Action on Clinical
Decision Support

• Steering Committee
• Jerome A. Osheroff, Thomson Micromedex, presenter
• Jonathan M. Teich, Brigham Womens Hospital /
  Harvard U., presenter
• Blackford Middleton, Partners Healthcare, Harvard
  Medical School
• Elaine B. Steen, American Medical Informatics
  Assoc.
• Adam Wright, Oregon Health Sciences University
• Don E. Detmer, American Medical Informatics Assoc.

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What is CDS?

• Giving clinicians, patients, and others relevant
  information in context, that helps them make
  better decisions, prevent errors, and improve
  care quality and outcomes
• CDS interventions include guidelines, alerts,
  order sets, tools to interpret patient data
• Studies show value guideline adherence, fewer
  medication errors/adverse events

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CDS Opportunity ExampleThe Community Initiatives

• Workgroups support exchange of data key to
  clinical decision making
• meds, labs, messaging, biosurveillance
• CDS helps turn data into best care, by
• Organizing, explaining, guiding, alerting
• Can amplify the value of each initiative
• e.g., fewer medication errors, consumer guidance,
  lab interpretation, surveillance alerting

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Full Potential is Unrealized

• Knowledge/tools are not interoperable
• Each vendor/provider reinvents the wheel
• Adoption is limited/difficult
• Unclear business case
• Usability/deployment problems
• Care quality/efficiency problems persist

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The CDS Roadmap
An ONC-commissioned blueprint for coordinated
national action to ensure that usable and
effective clinical decision support is widely
used by providers and patients to improve
healthcare
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A Multi-Stakeholder Effort

• CDS/informatics pioneers
• Providers academic/ community centers
• Patient/consumer advocates
• HIT/CDS vendors
• Payers
• Consulting firms

• Healthcare quality safety experts
• Legal/policy experts
• Standards organizations
• Government
• ONC, AHRQ, NIH, VA, CMS, FDA, NLM, IOM, CCHIT

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Best Knowledge Available When Needed
High Adoption and Effective Use
Continuous Improvement of CDS Methods and
Knowledge
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6 Strategic Objectives Best Knowledge Available
When Needed

• Develop practical standard formats for
  representing CDS knowledge and interventions
• Establish standard approaches to organizing and
  distributing CDS

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6 Strategic Objectives High Adoption and
Effective Use

• Develop solutions to policy, legal and financial
  barriers
• Compile and disseminate best practices for
  usability and implementation

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6 Strategic Objectives Continuous Improvement of
CDS Knowledge

• Develop standards to collect, learn from, and
  share national CDS experience
• Use EHR data systematically to advance knowledge

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Critical Path Action Steps Recommended in
Roadmap

• Create ongoing stakeholder group/forum
• Collect and promote best CDS practices
• Develop and conduct pilots of usable, valuable,
  scalable CDS
• based on strategic objectives
• targeting high-priority clinical areas
• Support/leverage pertinent initiatives