Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Partners HealthCare Information Systems (PHS) have formed the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Consortium with the Regenstrief Institute, the Veterans Health Administration, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Oregon Health Sciences University, Kaiser Permanente, NextGen, Siemens Medical Solutions, GE Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, University of California, San Diego, Duodecim Medical Publications, Philips, Wolters Kluwer Health, Accenture, AT&T, Geisinger, MITRE, and the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. The WVP Health Authority and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) serve as corresponding sites using NextGen and GE electronic health records, respectively. Members of the CDS Consortium are intimately involved in creating and providing CDS tools and services in electronic health records used in both academic settings as well as community-based physician office practices. These investigators share a common interest and goal of enhancing the wide-spread adoption of CDS tools and services to improve the delivery of healthcare both domestically and world-wide. The goal of the CDS Consortium is to assess, define, demonstrate, and evaluate best practices for knowledge management and clinical decision support in healthcare information technology at scale – across multiple ambulatory care settings and EHR technology platforms.

 

The CDS Consortium is an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Research Contract that began on March 5, 2008. We have completed two base years of research and development, and the first of three Option Years of the research contract. The AHRQ funding for the CDS Consortium will end after 5 years of support on July 8th, 2013.

This project was funded under contract # HHSA290200810010 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.