The CDS Consortium study is a five-year contract. The project was funded in 2008 and is scheduled to end in 2013. It consists of two Base Years and three Option Years (OY). We are currently in OY3. Detailed timelines are listed below for OY2 and OY3.
Option Year 3
July 2012:
- Beginning of Option Year 3
August 2012:
- Draft OY3 Work Plan, Project Plan, and Evaluation Plan submissions
- Technical Expert Panel (TEP) teleconference
September 2012:
- Finalized OY3 Work Plan, Project Plan, and Evaluation Plan submissions
- Draft OY3 Dissemination Plan submission
- Meeting with AHRQ Program Officer
- Proposed a list of potential CDS Consortium content areas to develop during OY3
- 26th Annual Plenary Working Group Meeting (Baltimore, MD)
October 2012:
- Finalized OY3 Dissemination Plan submission
November 2012:
- Built, deployed, and tested International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision (ICD-9) classification rules
- AMIA Annual Symposium (Chicago, IL)
December 2012:
- Built, deployed, and tested Regenstrief reverse engineering rules (cholesterol, hyperkalemia, and hypokalemia)
January 2013:
- Release of the CDS knowledge authoring tool (KAT)
- Regenstrief Phase 2 demo complete
- Report on Regenstrief Care rules
- HL7 Working Group Meeting (Phoenix, AZ)
February 2013:
- Report on Regenstrief Phase 2 demo
- Completed testing and documentation of KAT
- Built University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey (UMDNJ) forward engineering rules
March 2013:
- L4 artifacts from UMDNJ
- HIMSS13 conference (New Orleans, LA)
April 2013:
- NextGen customer integration complete
- PHS Phase 2 demo complete
- Report on PHS phase 2 demo complete
- CGC annual meeting
- Drafted updates to CGC editorial policies
- NextGen customer post-implementation site visit
- GE customer integration complete
May 2013:
- L4 artifacts from Regenstrief
- GE customer post-implementation site visit
- Finalized updates to CGC editorial policies
- HL7 Working Group Meeting (Atlanta, GA)
June 2013:
- Report on open-source rules engine
- Report on cross-site services demonstrations
- Modifications to ECRS to support HL7 Decision Support Service standard as an interface to the web service
- Deployment and testing of pharmacogenomics rules
- Report on GE customer post-implementation site visit
- Report on NextGen customer post-implementation site visit
July 2013:
- CDS Consortium recommendations complete
- Finalized OY3 report submission
- End of Option Year 3
Option Year 2
July 2011:
- Beginning of Option Year 2
August 2011:
- 1st Technical Expert Panel (TEP) in-person meeting
- Draft OY2 Work, Project and Evaluation Plans submission
September 2011:
- Finalized OY2 Work Plan, Project Plan and Evaluation Plan submission
- Draft OY2 Dissemination Plan submission
- NextGen virtual site visit
- Methodology for identifying rules for reverse engineering
October 2011:
- Finalized OY2 Dissemination Plan submission
- NextGen customer integration complete
- Stylesheet for additional modalities
November 2011:
- 1st Technical Expert Panel teleconference
December 2011:
- Needs Assessment visit with a Beacon Community: the Keystone HIE (Geisinger)
- PHS phase 2 demo complete
January 2012:
- RI phase 1 demo complete
February 2012:
- GE customer pre-implementation site visit
- 2nd Technical Expert Panel in-person meeting
March 2012:
- CGC annual meeting
April 2012:
- NextGen customer Phase 1 demo complete
- L3 artifacts from reverse engineering
- L2 artifacts from forward engineering
- GE virtual visit
May 2012:
- 2nd Technical Expert Panel teleconference
- CDS Dashboard open source solution evaluation complete
June 2012:
- Extended services for inclusion and use of ICD-9 and CPT in CDS Service
- GE customer integration complete
- CDS Recommendations submission
July 2012:
- RI Phase 2 demo complete
- Finalized OY2 report submission
- End of Option Year 2
View CDS Consortium OY2 Timeline Chart
