CDSS

Clinical Decision Support Organizations

Clinical Decision Support Consortium – Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Partners HealthCare Information Systems (PHS) have formed the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Consortium with the Regenstrief Institute, the Veterans Health Administration, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,Oregon Health Sciences University, Kaiser Permanente, NextGen, Siemens Medical Solutions, GE Healthcare, Mayo Clinic,University of California, San Diego, Duodecim Medical Publications, Philips, Wolters Kluwer Health, Accenture, AT&T, Geisinger, MITRE, and the University of Utah Health Sciences Center.  Funded by AHRQ.

Health eDecisions – An intiative of the Standards & Interoperability Framework of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology focused on defining an implementation guide for CDS.

OpenCDS – OpenCDS is a multi-institutional, collaborative effort to develop open-source, standards-based clinical decision support (CDS) tools and resources that can be widely adopted to enable CDS at scale.

Clinical Decision Support Articles, Blogs, Papers, Etc.

4/12/2011 IBM: Watson & Healthcare – This article explains the technology behind Watson and how it might be applied to healthcare CDSS.

Standards and Guidelines

HL7 Decision Support Service, Release 1 – provides a standard interface for the provision and consumption of services that facilitate the delivery of clinical decision support by receiving patient data as the input and returning patient-specific conclusions as the output.

GELLO - HL7 Version 3 Standard which provides an OCL-like common expression language.

Clinical Decision Support Products & Services

PKC: Web-based applications that surface our knowledge within the technical environments of EMRs, PHRs, care management systems, and other online workflows which use the problem-oriented medical record (POMR) and subjective, objective, analytical, and planning (SOAP) progress notes.

SimulConsult: Expert diagnostic assistant for physicians