Quick Start Guide

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To orient yourself quickly to the CDS/PI project, tools, and processes, please review the information below.

1. Collaborative Overview

The CDS/PI Collaborative is a multi-stakeholder effort wherein care delivery organizations and others are working together to use CDS more effectively in addressing healthcare improvement imperatives, such as clinical measures associated with reimbursement and Meaningful Use. A core activity is documenting and sharing local CDS intervention strategies for these targets in a structured fashion using CDS Configuration Templates based on the CDS 5 Rights (see below). For a more detailed initiative overview, click here.

2. CDS 5 Rights

The cornerstone of Collaborative tools and processes is the CDS 5 Rights framework. This approach asserts that, to improve targeted healthcare decisions/outcomes, organizations must use well developed & deployed CDS interventions that provide: the right information, to the right people, in the right intervention formats, through the right channels, at the right points in workflow. For more detail on the CDS 5 Rights dimensions, click here. For more detail on how CDS 5 Rights-based configuration templates can be used to accelerate local CDS/PI efforts, click here.

3. VTE CDS Strategy Recommendations

A core use for CDS Configuration Templates is to help individual care organizations document, improve and share their current target-focused CDS strategies. In addition, the configuration templates can also be used by health systems, HIT vendors, specialty societies and others to synthesize and convey particularly successful approaches for applying CDS to specific PI imperatives. The file "Working draft_CDS VTE approach...," which can be downloaded at the bottom of this page, illustrates such a 'best practices' synthesis. This example contains a draft set of recommended CDS practices for VTE prophylaxis developed in collaboration with SHM and gleaned from their extensive experience with performance improvement projects on this topic, and can help advance CDS/PI efforts focused on this target.

4. Benefits to Stakeholders

The Collaborative offers benefits to many diverse but inter-dependent stakeholders in leveraging CDS to improve care processes and outcomes. For specific details, click here and here.

5. Status Report

For an update on recent Collaborative progress, see the most recent slide deck at the bottom of the Collaborative Overview page. It provides detail on the three Phase II Collaborative components: 1. Scale Collaborative to new organizations and more imperatives, 2. Foster cross-stakeholder dialogue, and 3. Define a path to sustainability.

6. Join the Collaborative

Collaborative membership is open to individuals and organizations in a position to both add value to the initiative and receive benefits for their organizations. There is no cost for membership, which provides members-only access to populated configuration templates, teleconference and online discussion groups, regular project updates and other benefits. To request entry, complete the two forms here.