The CDS Consortium study is a 5 year contract. It 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 the OY2. Detailed timelines are listed below for OY2. Details for Base Years and OY1 timelines will be provided in March 2012.
Option Year 2
July 2011:
- Beginning of Option Year 2
August 2011:
- 1st Technical Expert Panel (TEP) in-person meeting
- OY2 draft Work Plan, Project Plan and Evaluation Plan submission
September 2011:
- OY2 final Work Plan, Project Plan and Evaluation Plan submission
- OY2 draft Dissemination Plan submission
- NextGen Virtual visit
- Methodology for identifying rules for reverse engineering
October 2011:
- OY2 final 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
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 submision
July 2012:
- RI Phase 2 demo complete
- OY2 final report submission
- End of Option Year 2
Option Year 1
Coming soon
Base Years
Coming soon


