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CDS-PI Collaborative

Documents updated April 2012

Join the "Clinical Decision Support Collaborative for Performance Improvement", a provider-driven initiative to accelerate local CDS efforts in high-priority areas. SI hosts the meetings.

An initial Pilot Project (funded by the California Health Care Foundation) has demonstrated the feasibility/value of sharing such CDS configurations.

Reasons to join the CDS-PI Collaborative:

  • A commitment to Performance Improvement, systematizing care processes, leveraging HIT investments and evidence-based best practices
  • Limited CDS/PI resources with high stakes
  • To be more efficient/effective
  • To enhance innovation and accelerate its spread throughout health systems
  • Valuing best practices for CDS interventions

Examples of CDS best practices that will be included in the collaborative:

  • Preventable complications (Safety) - VTE and Catheter-associated infections
  • Condition management (Quality) -Cardiovascular (CHF, AMI), Pneumonia
  • Efficiency (Cost) - Readmissions (CHF, AMI, pneumonia), Adverse Drug Events


Contact Jerry Osheroff at josheroff@tmitconsulting.com

Go to https://sites.google.com/site/cdsforpiimperativespublic/home


CDS Publications

Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support:An Implementer's Guide, Second Edition  ©2012

This new edition of the authoritative guide to clinical decision support implementation has been substantially enhanced with expanded and updated guidance on using CDS interventions to improve care delivery and outcomes in diverse care settings. Written by written by Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhD, FACMI, FHIMSS, Donald Levick, MD, MBA, FHIMSS, Luis Saldana, MD, MBA, FACEP, Ferdinand T. Velasco, MD, Dean F. Sittig, PhD, FACMI, FHIMSS, Kendall M. Rogers, MD, CPE, FACP, SFHM, and Robert A. Jenders, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI.
CDS book cover Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support  ©2009

Edited by Jerome Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Reuters