What is the CDS/QI template and why would I want to use it?
- The target-focused CDS/QI strategy template is a tool for documenting, improving and sharing your target-focused CDS/QI approach.
- It can be used by provider organizations, those who support their CDS/QI efforts (such as RECs and QIOs), those who provide tools to support these efforts (such as EHR and other HIT vendors), and others
- The template is based on the "CDS 5 Rights Framework" which asserts that, to optimally improve performance on specific targets using CDS approaches, you must get all the right information to all the right people through all the right channels in all the right formats at all the right points in workflow. More details about this framework are in the next section.
- The template enables quality improvement teams in office practices, hospitals and other organizations think systematically how information flows and workflows in their setting play out for their target in question.
- By making explicit how current care delivery processes are producing observed results on the target measure of interest, the template also helps teams brainstorm and implement enhancements that will lead to improved performance.
- This explicit documentation of information needs and opportunities in clinical workflow can also help providers, RECs and other who support them, and EHR and other HIT vendors that provide tools that underpin this information flow, collaborate better on quality improvement efforts.
- An more organizations use the same template to document their target-focused CDS/QI efforts and results there will be increasing opportunities to share completed templates among organizations working on the same topics, and thereby accelerate individual and collective CDS/QI success.
- In addition, the Quality Improvement Case Studies [link] in the Toolkit use these templates to convey how individual organizations with high performance on specific targets have achieved this success.
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