The Clinical Decision Support Consortium will address the following research questions:
- How do we improve the translation of knowledge in clinical practice guidelines into actionable clinical decision support in healthcare information technology?
- How do we advise CPG developers on ways in which the design of CPGs can make this easier?
- How do we optimally represent knowledge and data required to make actionable clinical decision support content in both human and machine readable form?
- How do we collate, aggregate, and curate knowledge content for clinical decision support in a knowledge portal used by members of the CDS Consortium? How may we use such a tool to support knowledge management and collaborative knowledge engineering for clinical decision support at scale, across multiple healthcare delivery organizations, and multiple domains of medicine?
- How do we demonstrate broad adoption of evidence-based clinical decision support at scale in a wide array of healthcare information technology products used in disparate ambulatory care delivery settings? Such demonstrations may show the utility of simplified clinical decision support knowledge specification in human readable form, as well as the utility of publicly available CDS web services, and their incorporation in certified electronic health records.
- How do we define and evaluate best practices in response to the above assessments and demonstrations? Evaluation must include how to incorporate clinical decision support services at scale in a variety of healthcare information technologies, from vendors as well as products developed in academic settings. Further, how do we deploy clinical decision support services in healthcare information technology in a manner that improves CDS impact?
- How do we take the learnings garnered through the course of these investigations and broadly disseminate them to key stakeholder audiences, including academic informatics, patient safety and quality, clinical professional societies, small office practice settings, and more?
