Project Organization

The KMLA Team will conduct surveys and site visits at the CDSC member institutions to assess their clinical decision support activities and practices both before and after the CDSC activities.

The KTS Team is charged with selecting guidelines to use in consortium activities and translating these guidelines into the multi-layered knowledge representation format for use in the service and demonstration projects.

The KMPR Team will develop and implement collaborative knowledge management tools for use in the development, review, publication, cataloging and archival of knowledge specifications in human and machine readable forms.

The Recommendations Team will assess state-of-the-art methods for clinical decision system support and the results from CDSC best practices development, and make a series of recommendations to vendors, content vendors, and regulatory and certification authorities, about best practices and capabilities for decision support.

The CDSS Team will take the decision support knowledge representation and knowledge prepared by the KTS team and develop publicly available web services that implement the content for use in information systems among the CDS Consortium.

The CDS Demonstration Team, in conjunction with site demonstration teams, will perform analysis, development and implementation of decision support interventions using the content and services developed in the CDS Consortium.

The CDS Dashboards Team will develop performance reporting tools and clinical decision support dashboards so that providers and site clinical quality staff can review adherence to Consortium guidelines.

The CDS Evaluation Team will lead and coordinate evaluation activities across all projects performed by the CDS Consortium.

The Dissemination Team will coordinate sharing and publication of the clinical decision support content and best practices developed by the Consortium.

The Joint Information Modeling Team is a joint subcommittee of the KTS and CDS Services team and coordinates information models and terminology across all Consortium projects.

The Content Governance Committee is a group of subject matter experts from the member institutions who make policy decisions regarding decision support content development, use and sharing.