Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is defined broadly as a clinical system, application or process that helps health professionals make clinical decisions to enhance patient care. Clinical knowledge of interest could range from simple facts and relationships to best practices for managing patients with specific disease states, new medical knowledge from clinical research and other types of information.
The CDS topic area of himss.org covers the latest trends and news, and it also provides cases studies, and a range of resources and tools for healthcare professionals, researchers and administrators, such as strategies for success, financial considerations and more.
For more information regarding CDS, please contact David Collins.
Latest News:
E-Prescribing And CDS: "Quick" Information, Riding The HIMSS Wiki Wave
Medical News Today (6/1/09)
Army College Adds EMR Systems to the Syllabus
Army College is introducing several new efforts in training students in systems that utilize information security, as well as medical communications and electronic medical records.
Collaboration for Clinical Decision Support: An International Movement Toward Clinical Transformation
The Scottsdale Institute as convener and facilitator has helped create and
lead an international collaborative effort to better implement CDS in hospitals and
health systems as the key tool in preventing medication errors, improving care
quality and addressing changes in reimbursement signaled by “Never Events” and “Present on Admission.”
