The Practice of Clinical Decision Support: Applying Standards and Technology to Deliver Knowledge-Driven Interventions
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Clinical decision support (CDS) delivered in the context of electronic health record systems is receiving increasing attention as a way to help improve clinical practice and health behaviors. Nevertheless, multiple technologies exist to implement and maintain CDS, and there is little consensus on their use. The use of health information technology (HIT) standards for encoding data, representing knowledge and delivering knowledge-based interventions can help facilitate implementation of CDS. However, many standards from numerous standards development organizations (SDOs) exist that are variously incorporated into vendor software, and consensus on the use of these standards is lacking. Accordingly, the purpose of the presentation is twofold. First, the presenters, who are co-chairs of the Health Level Seven CDS Work Group, will survey the state of the art and science regarding HIT standards that are applicable to CDS. In this analysis of the standards landscape, the presenters will emphasize those standards concerning knowledge representation and delivery as well as convey the latest developments regarding these standards and related efforts to develop new standards. Second, the presenters will show how this work has been translated into software tools and actual implementations that are used to deliver knowledge interventions and to provide CDS.
Source: PubMed Central
Institutions: Georgetown University, University of Utah
Language: English
Subfield: Health Information Management
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W42337158