Clinical decision support: progress and opportunities
Background
In 2005, the American Medical Informatics Association along with the support of the office of the national coordinator and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality started a roadmap and set of activities relating to clinical decision support (CDS). The roadmap included a critical path with recommended three pillar activities: best knowledge available when needed, high adoption and effective use and continues improvement of knowledge and CDS methods.
Methods
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Results
The roadmap of activities is assessed over three years and while noteworthy progress is made, substantial work remains.
Conclusion
Authors concluded that continued progress would be significantly help in the following activities: the designation of a single entity to coordinate CDS development and deployment, the development and use of techniques to measure the use of CDS tools, continued research funding for CDS and the development of an updated critical path. The CDS efforts are supported by a significant amount of federal resources and the authors believe the initiatives and activities are attainable.
References
Lyman, Jason A., Cohn, Wendy F., Bloomrosen, Meryl, Detmer, Don E. (2010). Clinical decision support: progress and opportunities. JAMIA, 14, 487-492. Retrieved February 22, 2015, from http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/5/487
