Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Partners HealthCare Information Systems have formed the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Consortium with Regenstrief Institute, the Veterans Health Administration, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Oregon Health & Science University, Kaiser Permanente, NextGen, Siemens Medical Solutions, GE Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, Duodecim Medical Publications, Philips, Wolters Kluwer Health, Accenture, AT&T, Geisinger, Meliorix, MITRE, the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, newMentor, Main Line Health System, Evinance, Applied Pathways, InterSystems, Illinois Gastroenterology Group, Truven Health Analytics, EBSCO Publishing, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The WVP Health Authority and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey 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 that can be used in both academic settings as well as community-based physician practices. These investigators share a common interest in and goal of enhancing the widespread adoption of CDS tools and services to improve the delivery of healthcare both domestically and worldwide. 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. The CDS Consortium is in the final year of the research contract, having completed two base years of research and development and two option years for deploying our services. 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.