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Workgroup Mission

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

Date
Schedule
Files
May 2021 CDS Connect Work Group

Roll Call, Michelle Lenox (MITRE)

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Revisiting CDS Artifact Annual Review and Maintenance (MITRE)

What's New with CDS Connect This Month (MITRE)

Invitation to join patient partnering panel

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

April 2021 CDS Connect Work Group

Roll Call, Michelle Lenox (MITRE)

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Discussion Part 2: Partnering with the Patient and Caregiver Community - Sharing Lessons Learned with CDS: Person-First Safe Living in a Pandemic (Danny van Leeuwen and Laura Haak Marcial)

What's New with CDS Connect This Month (MITRE)

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

March 2021 CDS Connect Work Group

Roll Call, Michelle Lenox (MITRE)

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Discussion Part 1: Partnering with the Patient and Caregiver Community to Develop CDS (MITRE)

What's New with CDS Connect This Month (MITRE)

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

February 2021 CDS Connect Work Group

Roll Call, Michelle Lenox (MITRE)

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Discussion: Supporting Implementers of Shareable CDS with the Implementation Guide (RTI International and MedStar Health)

What's New with CDS Connect This Month (MITRE)

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

January 2021 CDS Connect Work Group

Roll Call, Michelle Lenox (MITRE)

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Lessons Learned: b.well Connected Health (b.well)

What's New with CDS Connect This Month (MITRE)

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

November 2020 CDS Connect Work Group

Roll Call, Michelle Lenox (MITRE)

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Lessons Learned: Blockchain to Support Trust (EunoChains)

What's New with CDS Connect This Month (MITRE)

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

October 2020 Work Group

Roll Call, Michelle Lenox (MITRE)

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Share and Discuss CDS Connect Priorities thru September 2021, Lacy Fabian (MITRE)

What's New with CDS Connect This Month (MITRE)

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

September 2020 Work Group

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Sharing Lessons Learned with CDS: Stewardship of Implemented, Interoperable & Shareable CDS Artifacts: Lessons Learned and Future Directions (RTI International, MD Partners and Alphora Inc.)

What's New with CDS Connect

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

August 2020 CDS Connect Work Group

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention (ASBI) Clinical Decision Support (MITRE)

What's New with CDS Connect This Month (MITRE)

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

 

July 2020 CDS Connect Work Group

Review of the Agenda, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Sharing Lessons Learned with CDS, Nancy Nurthen and Sai Simhadri (Digital Infuzion)

What's New with CDS Connect This Month (MITRE)

Open Discussion and Close Out, Maria Michaels (CDC)

Some members of the working group

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.