The report
"provides
recommendations and an action plan designed to advance the development, widespread adoption,
and value
of clinical decision support in improving health and the quality and safety of health
care delivery. It includes
an overview of the current state and future vision of CDS-enabled health care,
outlines barriers to broader
CDS adoption, and proposes specific solutions to address these barriers" [AMIA Press Release].
"This Roadmap recommends a series of activities to improve CDS capabilities and increase use of
CDS throughout the United States health sector. The immediate goal of these activities is:
to ensure that optimal, usable and effective clinical decision support is widely
available to providers, patients, and individuals where and when they need it to
make health care decisions. "
"The Roadmap identifies three pillars for fully realizing the promise of CDS [...]:
- "Best Knowledge Available When Needed: the best available clinical knowledge
is well organized, accessible to all, and written, stored and transmitted in a format
that makes it easy to build and deploy CDS interventions that deliver the
knowledge into the decision making process
- "High Adoption and Effective Use: CDS tools are widely implemented,
extensively used, and produce significant clinical value while making financial
and operational sense to their end-users and purchasers
- "Continuous Improvement of Knowledge and CDS Methods: both CDS
interventions and clinical knowledge undergo continuous improvement based on
feedback, experience, and data that are easy to aggregate, assess, and apply."
The Roadmap presents "a comprehensive work plan" a
"critical path" comprising a "focused subset" of CDS activities...
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Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support (Report, executive summary, presentation, press release ...)