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Health care systems spend millions annually developing clinical decision support (CDS), yet they largely develop CDS independently from each other. The process of translating evidence-based practice into effective and useful CDS could be more efficient if health care systems shared knowledge about the translation, including workflow considerations, key assumptions made during the translation process, and technical details. Further, standards such as HL7 Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) are gaining momentum and aid interoperability of these knowledge resources or “artifacts.” In 2016, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality launched CDS Connect as a public, web-based platform for authoring and sharing CDS knowledge artifacts. Since its launch, Federal agencies, academic institutions, and others have contributed to CDS Connect as a vehicle for sharing and dissemination. Other organizations are using content available through CDS Connect for continued research, innovation, and implementation. Panelists will share their experience using the platform and its tools, including describing ongoing research to try to quantify potential efficiencies gained by health care systems using shareable, interoperable CDS.

Describe the new knowledge and additional skills the participant will gain after attending your presentation.: This session is designed for clinicians, health care system leaders, informaticists, and others interested in making clinical decision support (CDS) easier to develop and deploy through sharing interoperable CDS knowledge. Panelists will describe their experiences using CDS Connect, a publicly-available, national CDS repository and associated tools. Specifically, at the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to: 1) define knowledge “artifacts” in the context of translating evidence-based recommendations into computable, interoperable clinical decision support; and 2) access CDS Connect, including review and download clinical decision support knowledge artifacts available on the repository.

Authors:

Edwin Lomotan (Presenter)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Jean Meadows (Presenter)
The MITRE Corporation

Maria Michaels (Presenter)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jeremy Michel (Presenter)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Kristen Miller (Presenter)
National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare

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