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Clinical Decision Support Demonstrations - Clinical Decision Support Consortium
Project Overview | Timing | Technical Design and Architecture
Project Overview
The Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Consortium is a collaboration among leading CDS researchers and practitioners that will increase widespread sharing and adoption of CDS.
Partners
The CDS Consortium team includes the following organizations:
- Partners HealthCare
- Veterans Health Administration
- Siemens Medical Solutions
- Masspro
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- Regenstrief Institute
- Kaiser Permanente
- GE Healthcare
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Scope
The CDS Consortium will focus on diabetes, coronary artery disease, and hypertension screening. Participating clinical sites will be located in the State of Massachusetts.
Stakeholders
Stakeholders include health care providers, care managers, guideline developers, health information technology (health IT) vendors and suppliers, and policymakers.
Goals
The Consortium's goal is to assess, define, demonstrate, and evaluate best practices for knowledge management and CDS in health care information technology at scale - across multiple ambulatory care settings and EHR technology platforms.
Funding
The Consortium is funded by a $2.5 million contract from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and in-kind support by the member institutions.
Timing
The Consortium's approach will be iterative and cyclical, beginning with an assessment of the knowledge management lifecycle and supporting infrastructure, then defining best practices for translating knowledge into a multi-layered array of reader-friendly educational materials and public web services. An evaluation will then be conducted to document lessons learned from each site.
Technical Design and Architecture
The Consortium will develop increasingly structured and unambiguous knowledge specifications based on clinical guidelines from medical specialty societies and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Guidelines to be implemented are the 2007 Diabetes Management Standards of Care from the American Diabetes Association; the American College of Cardiology's guidelines on Antiplatelet Therapy Prescribed for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease; the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on Aspirin for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events; and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on Screening for High Blood Pressure. The decision support will be implemented as web services and integrated into the demonstration applications using a service-oriented approach.
Data Exchange Standards Used
The Consortium will use HITSP-approved standards, including the HL7 Continuity of Care Document for data exchange, as well as standard terminologies such as SNOMED for problems, LOINC laboratory observations and RxNorm for medications.
Additional information can be found on the CDSC's website:
http://www.partners.org/cird/cdsc/
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