On October 3, 2017, Noam Arzt and Daryl Chertcoff from HLN attended the Patient Centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network (PCCDS-LN) 2017 Annual Conference in Crystal City, VA. HLN was also a Bronze-level Sponsor of this event, which brought together clinicians, informaticists, and health policy advocates to discuss current trends in clinical decision support leveraging information from Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) findings and patient-specific information. The conference featured national experts in CDS and patient-centered research in the morning, and a participative set of breakout sessions in the afternoon developing an idealized design of the patient-centered CDS process through four different perspectives.
Most of this conference focused on patient-centered CDS. But it seems that this term absorbs a number of somewhat different concepts and is used by different people to mean different things. “Patient centered” to some people means “patient-facing” – that is, it refers to an application (in this case a CDS-enabled application) that is used or accessed by a patient directly. To others, patient-centered is synonymous with “patient-empowered” which implies support for more patient control of his or her care and records. Many uses of CDS support do not directly involve patients in real time while still impacting patients and their care.
For HLN’s work in clinical decision support, this conference presented a number of useful themes and raised a number of important issues. While there was a lot of focus at this conference on the user interface, it is important for HLN to maintain its focus on the back-end services we are developing (like our ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster). But it is equally important that we continue to develop a rich set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to our services, including our traditional SOAP-based Web Services, supplemented by various RESTful services (including FHIR, SMART, and CDS Hooks). And all of this work should support and use accepted standards embraced by the healthcare industry.
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