A National Web Conference on Use of Clinical Decision Support To Improve Medication Management
Event Date:
January 28, 2014 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm ET
Overall Purpose:
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has identified a gap in health care and public health practitioners’ knowledge of health IT using multiple mechanisms, including the findings of the continuing education (CE) planning group. This series of Webinars is designed to increase practitioners’ ability to improve health care decisionmaking, support patient-centered care, and improve the quality and safety of care through the use of health IT.
This session identified strategies for using clinical decision support (CDS) to improve appropriate prescribing, dosing, and monitoring of medications by health care providers. The projects presented discussed the role of CDS in enhanced medication management for pediatric, adult, and mental health care.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the implementation of an EHR-based CDS application at the point of care on appropriate prescribing of antibiotics in otitis media care.
- Describe the evaluation of an EHR-integrated CDS system’s use of measurement-based care to improve medication management of patients with major depressive disorder.
- Discuss the assessment of CDS point-of-care alerts and an ambulatory EHR results management system in addressing laboratory monitoring and timely followup on abnormal results.
Event Materials:
- Presentation Slides (PDF, 2.18 MB)
CME/CNE credits were approved for those who attended the live event of this Web conference only. If you have any questions about obtaining CME/CNE credit for this webinar, please send an email to DigitalHealthcareResearch@ahrq.hhs.gov.