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The CDS Connect Work Groups are advisory groups established to identify and validate the design for capabilities and functionality of the CDS Repository, while informing and guiding the design, development and inclusion of CDS artifacts.
Workgroups will identify, prioritize and vet the software functionality that will be incrementally designed and deployed in the CAMH (The CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare) developed CDS Repository. They will provide feedback on the identification, generation and piloting of CDS artifacts developed by the CDS Connect project team.
Some of the organizations that are informing CDS Connect efforts through voluntary participation in Workgroup calls include:
- AllianceChicago
- Apervita, Inc
- Arizona State University
- Boston University School of Medicine
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/ Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services
- Cerner Corporation
- Clinovations Government + Health
- Cognitive Medical Systems
- ECRI Institute
- Elimu Informatics, Inc
- GE Healthcare
- HarmonIQ Health Systems Corporation
- Health Hats
- HLN Consulting, LLC
- Indiana University, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
- Inflexxion, Inc.
- LogicNets Inc
- MAGIC Project - Making GRADE the Irresistible Choice
- MEDITECH
- Motive Medical Intelligence
- National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine
- Patient-Centered CDS Learning Network
- Practice Fusion, Inc.
- Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
- Telligen
- University of Michigan
- University of Utah
- Veterans Health Administration
- Yale Center for Medical Informatics
The Role of the CDS Connect Workgroup
This workgroup will advise CAMH on the ongoing identification and prioritization of key features and capabilities for the CDS Repository software. CAMH will create legends, lead discussions, and consider feedback from workgroup subject matter experts.
Community Support
Nurture an active and supportive open source community that will be the heart of the CDS Connect project, focused on the success of the Repository software.
Discuss the various licensing considerations of the software and associated CDS artifacts hosted on the CDS Repository.
Provide Vision
Advise the development/refinement of the open source CDS Repository software requirements that will be documented for AHRQ.
Validate the vision and use of the CDS Repository based on experiences from the community of users.
Implementation Guidance
Convene discussions on the use of the CDS Connect information technology infrastructure and CDS data when used with EHR systems.
Discuss and identify entry points for Application Programmer Interfaces that will allow for further automation and integration of the CDS Repository and associated CDS artifacts.
CDS Connect Work Group Schedule
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-Based Care Transformation Support (ACTS) initiative
Clinical decision support (CDS) prototype testing tool
New parameter type features in the Authoring Tool (AT)
Option Year (OY) 2 pilot technical approach
CDS Connect Outreach and Demonstrations
CDS Connect Sustainability Path project status and feedback
Importing external Clinical Quality Language (CQL) into the Authoring Tool (AT) demonstration
Option Year (OY) 2 pilot and artifact development
CDS Connect Outreach and Demonstrations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) project “Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age”
Demonstration of Authoring Tool (AT) comments Enabling alternate terminology servers in the AT Enabling CDS Connect Artifact comments
CDS Connect Sustainability Path Project
Demonstration of Artifact Discovery
OY2 Pilot Selection and CDS Development Approach
CDS Connect Outreach and Demonstrations
Open Discussion and Close Out
Analysis of the Trust Framework Work Group (TFWG) Recommendations
Authoring Tool (AT) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Standard for Trial Use (STU) 3 Support
Repository Account Enhancement Options
Pilot Update
CDS Connect Sustainability Path Project Update
CDS Connect Artifact Discovery
CDS Connect Artifact Versioning
Option Year (OY) 2 Prototype Development
OY2 Artifact Development and Pilot Update
Environmental Scan Key Findings and CDS Approach
CDS Connect Sustainability Project
Patient Perspective Blog Posting
Option Year (OY) 2 Clinical Domain and Approach
OY2 Prototype Development
CDS Connect Notification Options
Repository Updates
Trust Framework Workgroup (TFWG) Final Whitepaper Overview: Promoting Trust in CDS Connect Artifacts
Sharing “Lessons Learned” on the CDS Connect Repository
Pilot Update
Status update on the Pain Management Summary CDS artifact and software
New Authoring Tool testing features demonstration
Future planning for CDS Connect Authoring Tool
CDS Hooks Prototype tool demonstration
Presentation on the Groups capability
Pilot update
The Role of the Cholesterol Management Workgroup
The CDS Connect Cholesterol Management Workgroup advised the CDS Connect project team from December 2016 – August 2017 during the development, specification and pilot implementation of cholesterol-related CDS artifacts which are currently hosted on the CDS Connect Repository.
Clinical Feedback
Review clinical components of the environmental scan conducted by CAMH.
Provide feedback on where CDS artifacts would fire in clinical workflow and the urgency of the notification.
Artifact Vision
Provide feedback on which recommendations to prioritize and how they might translate into CDS rules.
Provide feedback on artifact fidelity and inclusion, and provide suggestions for additional areas of inquiry.
Provide feedback on the presentation format of each CDS artifact and the end-user target that would engage with the artifact.
Implementation Guidance
Validate final catalog of clinical content to ensure that all the CAMH CDS artifacts provide consistent clinical across the domain of cholesterol management.
Review and validate CAMH's proposed pilot testing plans specific to cholesterol management.
Review the results of CAMH's pilot of new cholesterol management CDS artifacts.
Cholesterol Management Work Group Schedule
Demonstration of CDS Repository
Demonstration of CDS Authoring Tool
Updates on the Pilot and Artifacts
Option Year Clinical Domains
Discuss logic, value sets, and notifications for the eCQM artifact
Gather feedback on lookback periods, notifications for the USPSTF artifacts and value sets
CDS Connect pilot overview
Statin CDS demos: Options for providing CDS notifications
Brief overview of existing CDS Connect artifacts
Clarify logic details for USPTF-related artifacts
Discuss best approach for transforming eCQM specifications into CDS logic
Clarify details related to existing artifacts
Discuss specification of new artifacts
Discuss next steps and artifacts for development
Discuss remaining repository questions
Clarify 10-year risk assessment details
Discuss statin therapy for the prevention and treatment of CVD eCQM/CDS artifact
Discuss next artifacts for development
Discuss ACC/AHA 10-year ASCVD risk assessment tool metadata and CDS creation
Discuss longitudinal risk assessment tool metadata, CDS creation and shared decision making
Questions to the workgroup
Determine next artifacts for development
CDS Connect project overview
CDS Cholesterol management workgroup overview and planning
CDS Cholesterol management environmental scan findings and artifacts
CDS Cholesterol management next steps