Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support is the result of a ground-breaking collaboration by dozens of individuals and organizations. Edited by Jerome Osheroff, MD, the concept for the book originated during SI CDS Community discussions and the project leveraged SIWebII and other collaborative development tools. It is co-published by HIMSS, the Scottsdale Institute, AMIA, ISMP, ASHP, and AMDIS.

The Guide is designed to help clinical decision support implementers improve medication use and associated outcomes in their organizations by providing practical recommendations for successfully implementing CDS focused on these targets. Chapters include detailed guidance on key areas in an effective CDS-medication management program such as:

• Optimizing governance structures and management processes
• Defining outcome improvement opportunities and baselines
• Setting up interventions in key clinical information systems and for specific targets
• Deploying CDS interventions to optimize acceptance and value
• Measuring results and refining the program
• Approaching CDS knowledge management systematically

The following organizations provided generous unrestricted grants to help engage editorial support for gathering and synthesizing the input from the many individuals with diverse perspectives who contributed to this project:

• Scottsdale Institute (www.scottsdaleinstitute.org)
• Epic Systems Corporation (www.epicsystems.com)
• Advocate Health Care (www.advocatehealth.com)
• Eclipsys Corporation (www.eclipsys.com)
• Memorial Hermann Health System (www.memorialhermann.org)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (www.ahrq.org)

APR 2009	Purchase Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide from the HIMSS store. Scheduled release date of April 6, 2009. Read the web-version of the first chapter of Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide.
JAN 2009	Listen to the SI teleconference audio, "Improving Medication Management, Safety and Other Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide", held January 29, 2009; read the accompanying presentation. "Jerry Osheroff, MD, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Reuters, and Joel Shoolin, DO, Vice President, Advocate HealthCare, and Sirajuddin Anwar, MBBS, MS, Clinical Decision Support Lead, Memorial Hermann, introduce and describe the newest publication in the HIMSS CDS series, designed to be a valuable guide for implementers.  Additionally, Drs. Shoolin and Anwar provide specific examples of how Medication Management has been improved through CDS in their respective organizations, and the resulting safety and outcomes measures.  Learn more about the new book and its predecessor, Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide.  Dr. Osheroff also describes the HIMSS/SI follow-on collaborative on driving measurable PI on on very specific priority targets, starting with VTE."
NOV 2008	View the presentation by Dr. Jerry Osheroff, Dr. Don Detmer, Dr. Bill Bria, and Shelli Williamson from the November 2008 AMIA conference. A review of the growing collaborative, its goals and results. Read SI's "Inside Edge", November 2008, Collaboration for Clinical Decision Support: An International Movement Toward Clinical Transformation; a review of the collaborative model, SI’s role, and future projects using collaborative tools.
Ongoing	Join the Managing CDS Knowledge Assets and Processes Community - an SIWebII community. SIWebII is the collaborative environment of the Scottsdale Institute. NOTE: Accessible to Scottsdale Institute members only.