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What is Clinical Decision Support?

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) offers a Clinical Decision Support (CDS) 101 course. CDS 101 is intended to give you a broad and concise overview of CDS, the promise and techniques for fulfilling it, perils and pitfalls and how to avoid them, and a variety of technical and strategic information that you can use in your own organization. 

This course will provide activities that will help you design and implement CDS so that it can successfully address some of the important clinical and organizational problems in your practice. It also provides links to examples of organizations successfully using CDS to improve quality and safety, and briefly explores some of the key factors in successful CDS, such as providing the right intervention for the right need, and avoiding "alert fatigue".

CDS 101 offers guidance on how CDS fits into an overall organizational or practice-wide plan for improved outcomes.  It also emphasizes the importance of strong leadership and for frequent communication.

Below are downloadable resources that you can customize to use at your organization to help spread the message of the importance of investing energy in designing effective CDS interventions.
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Tools You Can Use: Check Out the QIDE REC Clinical Decision Support Practice Toolkit     

Each month, QIDE REC assembles an electronic practice toolkit that focuses on a particular topic. The January Practice Toolkit includes a host of resources related to clinical decision support, including educational information and tools, podcasts, events, videos, success stories, and more. 

Download the January Clinical Decision Support Practice Toolkit now to take advantage of these great resources.
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This publication was supported by the Cooperative Agreement Number 1U58DP004799-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.