3.1 Governance: Build a Strong Foundation
Description: The materials in this module will help guide you on how to select specific CDS interventions to achieve targeted measures and how to examine target-related workflows and information flows.
Action Steps:
- Start with a Strong Foundation: Link to: Guide 1
- Create a Steering Committee (Build on 2.1 activities)
- Convene Essential Stakeholders
- Agree on Focused CDS/QI Activity
- Establish Goals and Objectives for CDS plan (Worksheet 2-1a, 2-1b: Stakeholders, Goals, and Objectives) optional
- Integrate with Internal/External Drivers
- MU, QI, PCMH, CQM, VBP
- Assess Readiness and Capacity for CDS Implementation
- Develop Project Plan or Charter (Worksheet 2-2a, 2-2b: Checklist for Clinical Decision Support Goal Charter) optional
- Common Vision, Goal
- Oversight, Governance
- Key Stakeholders
- Internal: Clinical Champion, Leadership, Project Manager
- External: EHR/HIT Vendor(s), REC, Consultants
- Risk Management Plan
- Communication Plan: EARLY and Often
- Learn More:
- Link to: Advancing CDS Key Lessons in CDS Implementation (pg 9-11)
- Engaging Stakeholders, Goals and Objectives, Communication, Workflows
- Link to: Strength in Numbers: Shared Resources for Implementing CDS in a Small Practice
- Link to: Advancing CDS Key Lessons in CDS Implementation (pg 9-11)
- Create a Steering Committee (Build on 2.1 activities)
- Assemble a CDS Implementation Team Link to: Guide 2
- Recruit Members, Cultivate Champions
- Small Practices May Choose to Add a Few Members to their Steering Committee
- Administrative, Leadership, Technical, Clinical Champions, Project Manager
- Clarify Roles and Expectations
- Solicit Outside Sources to Fill Gaps
- RECs, Consultants, Vendors
- Convene Team and Plan Next Steps
- Recruit Members, Cultivate Champions
- Manage Change
- Involve Stakeholders, End Users EARLY and Often
- Do CDS with Stakeholders, not to Them
- Celebrate Milestones and Wins
- Involve Stakeholders, End Users EARLY and Often
More Information on the Topic:
Source: CDS Guidebook, Chapter 2: Organizing a Successful CDS Program, Chapter 5: Foundational Considerations for Effective CDS Interventions
Other Materials:
Workflow Changes in Implementing Clinical Decision Support Interventions
This document provides an example of how work processes will change for each given role by implementing a new intervention for preventing venous thrombosis embolism in hospitalized patients.
Navigation:
I would like to:
- Go to Module 3.2: Core QI Capabilities
- Go to home Provider page / REC page