Clinical Decision Support and Meaningful Use Stage II
I have just completed the design/specification of clinical decision support feature for an EHR system. The EHR vendor I am working for these days is seeking to have their system certified for Meaningful Use stage II. Hence the objective was to design clinical decision support that fulfils EHR certification criteria as mentioned here: http://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/170_314a8cds_2014_tp_approvedv1.3.pdf Another objective was to design it in a way that makes it possible to create clinical decision support interventions declaratively in order to support clinical quality measures (instead of coding the logic in the system through programming in order to show an alert for example). Certification requirements says that the users should be able to select CDS interventions based on each one and at least one combination of the following data: Problem list Medication list Medication allergy list Demographics Laboratory tests and value/results Vital signs Th