CIRD
This research project will be managed from the Clinical Informatics Research and Development group at Partners Healthcare System. Dr. Blackford Middleton will serve as PI with members of CIRD serving as Co-Investigators. CIRD will participate in all aspects of this research and have responsibility for creating the Knowledge Portal and Repository, and CDS Public Services. Ellen Rosenblatt will serve as financial manager for this research program, with support of Lynne Benoit from BWH research administration, and Debra DiGregorio from BWH DGIM. Lana Tsurikova will serve as research program manager for this research program. In addition, CIRD staff, in collaboration with members of the CDS Consortium, will develop primary research methods and instruments to use in this research and prepare AHRQ research reports, academic presentations, and manuscripts for publication.
CQA
Members of Clinical and Quality Analysis at Partners Healthcare System will perform primary analysis of research findings in collaboration with CIRD staff and CDSC Collaborators.
BWH DGIM
Members of the Harvard Medical School faculty and staff in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital will collaborate as subject matter experts in clinical domains under study for clinical decision support, and support the design and implementation of research methods. Dr. David Bates will provide overall guidance for evaluation research methods in collaboration with members of the CDS Consortium. In addition, these Co-Investigators will participate in academic dissemination activities.
Regenstrief
Co-Investigators from the Regenstrief Institute will participate in the collaborative research activities described above, and support implementation of the CDS demonstration projects in the Regenstrief electronic health record. Regenstrief staff will also participate in academic dissemination activities.
VHA
Co-investigators from the VHA at Indianapolis Center for Decision Support will collaborate in the research activities outlines above, and support implementation of CDS demonstration projects in the VHA Vista electronic health record. The Center will also participate as a core member of the evaluation team for these research projects, and in academic dissemination activities.
University of Texas School of Health Information Science and Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU)
Dr. Dean Sittig from University of Texas and Dr. Joan Ash from OHSU will lead the research focusing on surveying and defining best practices for the knowledge management lifecycle for CDS. In addition, the will lead the assessment and definition of best practices for knowledge translation and specification for CDS. They will, also play a lead role in defining how these best practices may be disseminated to electronic health record technologies created by vendors, and make recommendations to CCHIT for CDS certification criteria. In addition, Drs Sittig and Ash will play lead role in defining best practices for CDS deployment in electronic health record systems.
Kaiser Permanente
Co-investigators from Kaiser Permanente will participate in the collaborative research activities described above, but not be expected to participate in the CDS demonstration projects with their electronic health record system.
Siemens/NextGen
Professional staff from Siemens healthcare will participate in the collaborative research activities described above, and support implementation of the CDS demonstration projects in Siemens healthcare information technology. Siemens staff will also participate in academic dissemination activities.
GE
Professional staff from GE will participate in the collaborative research activites described above, and support implementation of the CDS demonstration projects in GE healthcare information technology. GE staff will also participate in academic dissemination activities.
