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Clinical decision support (CDS) can help improve clinical practice and health behaviors. The use of health information technology (HIT) standards for encoding data, representing knowledge and delivering knowledge-based interventions in turn can help facilitate implementation of CDS. However, many standards from numerous standards development organizations (SDOs) exist that are variously incorporated into vendor software, and consensus on the use of these standards is lacking. Moreover, new work in the past year on CDS standards and in related areas such as clinical quality measurement has increased the complexity of this domain. The emergence of the Health Level Seven International (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for patient data representation is particularly pertinent in light of work to leverage FHIR for CDS implementation.

Accordingly, the leaders of this instructional workshop, who are co-chairs of the HL7 CDS and Arden Syntax Work Groups, will address two overarching educational objectives. First, attendees will learn key details of and latest developments in extant and proposed HIT standards that are applicable to CDS and which they may need to use in their work. Second, the attendees will recognize how these standards relate to one another and can be used to implement CDS that improves outcomes. Through interaction with workshop leaders, attendees will be able to contribute ideas regarding refinement and use of HIT standards to facilitate CDS.

Learning Objective: After participating in this workshop, attendees will be able to (1) Describe key details of and latest developments in extant and proposed health information technology standards that are applicable to clinical decision support (CDS) and which they may need to use in their work; and (2) identify how these standards relate to one another and can be used to implement CDS that improves outcomes.

Authors:

Robert Jenders (Presenter)
Charles Drew University / UCLA

Guilherme Del Fiol (Presenter)
University of Utah

Peter Haug (Presenter)
Intermountain Healthcare

Kensaku Kawamoto (Presenter)
University of Utah

Bryn Rhodes (Presenter)
Dynamic Content Group LLC

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