CDS

Tonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA, Corporate Manager, Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, reviews the benefits of using KM tools in the CDS function.  How KM tools assist in the management and maintenance of clinical rules, culture change challenges and solutions, successful adoption strategies, and lessons learned are included.

Carl Christensen, Chief Information Officer, and Catherine McCarty, PhD, Senior Research Scientist and Director, present an overview of the initiatives underway at Marshfield Clinic to incorporate genomics into decision support. Over the past couple of years DNA samples have been collected and banked from almost 20,000 patients. A powerful personalized medicine research database is formed by combining the genetic...

Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D., Director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR.  Computer-based Provider Order Entry (CPOE) with real-time clinical decision support is being touted as one of the key components of a multi-pronged attack on many of the problems facing the modern healthcare system.  While we are strong supporters of these relatively new clinical information and...

David Classen, MD, VP, FCG, and advisor to Leapfrog Group, JCAHO, and the IOM, presents the results from his analysis of over 50 CPOE Readiness Assessments conducted over the last 2 years.  Success factors and enablers will be reviewed, including governance, organizational support structures, and staffing, the pros and cons of various implementation approaches, physician adoption and implications for...

Shelli Williamson, Executive Director, SI, and Janet Guptill, President, KM at Work, will describe a collaborative project to support your KM initiatives, specifically designed for healthcare provider organizations.  The project is based on feedback from SI members and will be an optional program for those who choose to subscribe.  In Phase I, the collaboration will create an inventory and...

Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, CMO, HealthVision, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, Boston, MA and Jerome Osheroff, MD, FACP, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson MICROMEDEX; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, review their recently published CDS guidebook which provides a detailed approach for goal setting, inventorying, selecting interventions, validating the program, implementing and monitoring results....

Dr. David Classen, Vice President, FCG, and advisor to the IOM, Leapfrog Group and JCAHO, reviews his research and his personal observations on the status of this initiative in non-academic, research settings.