Abstract
The promise of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) has always been to transform patient care and improve patient safety with delivery of timely and appropriate recommendations that are both patient-specific and more often than not appropriately actionable. However, the users of CDS, providers, are frequently bombarded with inappropriate and inapplicable CDS that is frequently neither informational, integrated into the workflow, patient-specific, and may present out of date and irrelevant recommendations. The life cycle of Clinical Decision Support begins with a request for CDS, continues with design and implementation, and concludes with ongoing knowledge maintenance. This State of the Practice will look at how using the best science and latest knowledge regarding CDS can create request and maintenance processes that work in the real world. Dr. David Bates will present the best science and knowledge behind CDS that works. Dr.’s Joseph Kannry and Thomas Yackel will present case studies of CDS requests and design processes that use this science to generate useful, useable, and timely patient-specific recommendations. Dr. Tonya Hongsermeier will present best practices in knowledge maintenance. Finally, Dr. Michael Krall will present a case study of knowledge maintenance from Kaiser Permanente that results in appropriate and up-to-date CDS.