What is the Care Delivery Improvement/CDS Toolkit?
This Toolkit is a collection of tools and resources designed to help providers, Regional Extension Centers (RECs) and others improve care processes and outcomes.
To visit the Toolkit Homepage, click here. The Toolkit is designed to be straightforward, actionable, and results-oriented.
Purpose of the Toolkit
This Toolkit is designed to help you apply a systematic approach to your quality improvement efforts. Because improving workflows and information flows is a core tool for quality improvement, Clinical Decision Support (CDS) (defined much more broadly than you may be thinking) is an integral approach covered in this Toolkit.
Who will benefit from the Toolkit?
This Toolkit will help RECs, providers and others interested in quality improvement.
Providers (Practices & Hospitals)/Organizations
· Improve workflows, information flow
· Improve patient care and reduce errors
· Address performance incentives and mandates
· Make your EHR more helpful
· To learn more about how providers can use the Toolkit, visit the Getting Started – Providers page
RECs
· This Toolkit will help RECs help providers accomplish the above goals
· To learn more about how RECs can use the Toolkit, visit the Getting Started – RECs page
What’s in the Toolkit?
How can I use the Toolkit?
Note: Toolkit contains summary "Tasks & Key Lessons" and other key information from the 2012 HIMSS CDS Guidebook in about half of the modules; reviewing this material provides a high-level action-oriented overview of the module content