The American Medical Informatics Association on Tuesday released a roadmap to help make clinical decision support a regular part of patient care, Healthcare IT News reports.
Health IT is an integral part of the report, which is called "A Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support," and was developed at the request of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
The report says the quality of health and care delivery can be improved by making the best knowledge readily available when needed by developing highly practical formats and services for representing, collecting, organizing and distributing clinical knowledge and clinical decision support, or CDS, interventions.
The report calls for organizing and publishing best strategies for improving CDS systems' design, usability and implementation, as well as ways to address legal and financial barriers to foster increased adoption and use. Also, the roadmap calls for establishing systematic ways to share CDS experience and for leveraging electronic health records to enhance clinical knowledge, Healthcare IT News reports.
"The efforts under the roadmap to more widely share deployment experiences and strategies could in the near term help make it so that everyone knows and can do what the best of us know and are doing," said Dr. Jerome Osheroff, an author of the report, chief informatics officer for Thomson Micormedex and chair of the CDS task force for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 6/14).