This guide helps define clinical decision support and describes its role in the medical home for enhancing quality and lowering costs. It also outlines how clinical decision support can help primary care providers demonstrate they have met the federal government’s “meaningful use” criteria, which is required for them to receive meaningful use incentives. Clinical decision support (CDS) is the term used to describe information presented at the appropriate time to enable providers and their patients to make the best decision based on the specific circumstances. By comparing the information in a patient’s electronic record with a set of evidence-based clinical guidelines, an electronic CDS system can, for example, remind a provider to ensure that a patient receives recommended immunizations, track a diabetic patient’s HgA1c levels over time or notify a provider that the medication he or she is about to prescribe may lead to a life-threatening allergic reaction.
The resource presents the types of clinical decision support available, ways to implement it smoothly into the physician practice and keys to effective use. The goal of CDS is to provide the right information, to the right person, in the right format, through the right channel, at the right point in the clinical workflow to improve health and health care decisions and outcomes. If properly implemented, CDS interventions can:
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