Clinical Decision Support

Poor CDS EHR Integration Negatively Impacts Patient Care, Survey Finds

October 26, 2023 - While clinicians find third-party solutions useful for clinical decision support (CDS), EHR workflow integration is key for clinicians to apply insights, according to data from Wakefield Research conducted on behalf of health IT vendor Insiteflow. Of the 250 clinicians surveyed for the report, 94 percent said not having easily accessible insights...


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Google Cloud Announces Generative AI Search Capabilities for Healthcare

by Hannah Nelson

Google Cloud has announced new capabilities in Vertex AI Search for healthcare and life sciences organizations that support generative AI-powered search on a range of data, including clinical...

Epic Sepsis Prediction Model Lacks Clinical Decision Support Timeliness

by Hannah Nelson

While the accuracy of a proprietary sepsis prediction model from Epic outperformed other tools at higher threshold predictions, poor timeliness limits its application for clinical decision support...

EHR Workflow Prompts Boost Lung Cancer Screening, LDCT Ordering

by Hannah Nelson

EHR workflow prompts increased the identification of patients eligible for lung cancer screening, according to a study published in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Researchers implemented...

Transparency Key for Default Opioid Dosing EHR Interventions

by Hannah Nelson

EHR interventions to change default dosing settings for opioid prescriptions may be feasible to implement in various surgical populations, especially if the new settings are evidence-based, according...

Review Finds EHR Nudge Interventions Drive Care Quality Improvements

by Hannah Nelson

Non-interruptive EHR nudge interventions, such as changing choice default options, can help drive care quality improvement, according to a study published in JAMIA. Interruptive clinical decision...

Intermountain Develops FHIR-Based Platform for Clinical Decision Support

by Hannah Nelson

Intermountain Health informaticists have developed and implemented a FHIR-based platform that hosts tools to help providers use evidence-based medicine, algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI)...

Clinical Decision Support EHR Alert Doubles Heart Failure Drug Prescriptions

by Hannah Nelson

A clinical decision support (CDS) EHR alert helped increase prescription rates of a life-saving heart failure drug, according to a study published in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology...

CDS EHR Integration Reduces Inappropriate Urine Culture Orders

by Hannah Nelson

A clinical decision support (CDS) EHR integration helped significantly reduce inappropriate urine culture (UC) orders among hospitalized patients in the country’s large safety-net hospital...

CDS EHR Integration Boosts Patient Problem List Documentation

by Hannah Nelson

A clinical decision support (CDS) EHR integration improved patient problem list documentation but did not contribute to improvements in clinical quality measures, according to a study published in...

ONC Brief Outlines How Standardized SDOH CDS Can Support Health Equity

by Hannah Nelson

Clinical decision support (CDS) that includes social determinants of health (SDOH) factors could help advance health equity and improve health outcomes, according to an ONC brief. CDS uses computable...

Non-Interruptive CDS EHR Integration Boosts ED Naloxone Prescribing

by Hannah Nelson

A study published in JAMIA found that clinical decision support (CDS) EHR integration helped increase prescribing of take-home naloxone (THN) in the ED, a recommended but under-utilized practice...

Behavioral Nudges in EHR Workflows May Reduce Healthcare Waste

by Hannah Nelson

Behavioral nudges within EHR workflows can help reduce erroneous decision-making and mitigate healthcare waste, according to a study published in JAMIA. Researchers studied three clinical workflows at...

American Endovascular Selects eClinicalWorks EHR for Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

American Endovascular & Amputation Prevention LLC has completed an eClinicalWorks EHR implementation to enhance interoperability. With seven centers across New York, New Jersey, and Ohio, the...

KLAS Weighs User Experience to Rank Clinical Decision Support Vendors

by Sarai Rodriguez

Clinical decision support (CDS) vendors aim to improve healthcare delivery by enhancing medical decisions with targeted clinical knowledge. While its use has proven to improve clinical quality...

HCA Healthcare Taps MEDITECH Expanse EHR to Drive Digital Transformation

by Sarai Rodriguez

HCA Healthcare will begin a large-scale MEDITECH Expanse EHR implementation in what the organization said is the next phase of its digital transformation journey. The agreement between both...

CDS EHR Integration Boosts Contextualized Care Delivery

by Hannah Nelson

The use of clinical decision support (CDS) EHR integration increased the likelihood that a clinician would address relevant patient life context in their care plan, according to a study published in...

Using CDS Alerts to Drive Patient Safety, Opioid Stewardship

by Hannah Nelson

Healthcare organizations are looking to improve opioid stewardship as harm related to opioid use continues to escalate. CDC data shows that opioid overdose deaths increased by more than 36 percent in 2020. While the opioid epidemic has...

Racial Disparities in EHR Family Health Information Present CDS Concern

by Hannah Nelson

Members of racial and ethnic minority groups had less available family health information (FHI) in the EHR, including cancer FHI, compared to White patients, according to a JAMA Network Open study that...