Overview
Introduction
As healthcare organizations implement electronic health records, they are
becoming increasingly aware of the ways clinical decision support tools will
help them improve quality of care, comply with clinical standards and take
part in pay for performance initiatives. However, CDS includes a vast range of
solutions, many of which are difficult to implement.
Scope
- Identifies the key factors driving adoption of CDS
- Pinpoints common pitfalls in CDS implementation
- Provides a framework for future CDS solutions
Report Highlights
The culture of medicine is resistant to CDS
CDS tools of the future will be patient-centric and focus on diagnosis
Clinical intelligence will change the way medicine is practiced
Reasons to Purchase
- Understand where CDS is today and where it will be in 5 years
- Align product messaging with what will resonate best with healthcare
organizations
- Identify strategies that will increase CDS adoption
- Overview
- Key Messages
- The culture of medicine is resistant to CDS
- CDS tools of the future will be patient-centric and focus on diagnosis
- Clinical intelligence will change the way medicine is practiced
- Implementation of CDS is difficult and requires an understanding of
common pitfalls
- Table of Contents
- Table of figures
- Market Opportunity
- The next step after EHRs: CDS
- CDS addresses top of mind healthcare pain points
- CDS improves care by providing clinicians with the right information at
the right time for the right patient
- Faced with cost pressures, healthcare organizations are looking to CDS
to improve efficiencies
- CDS solutions will have the reporting capabilities needed to take
advantage of P4P initiatives
- The inhibitors to CDS adoption are not easily overcome
- The culture of medicine shows great resistance to CDS
- ' Can' t put the cart before the horse' - without EHRs, the full value of
CDS is not realized
- The upfront costs of implementing CDS are steep for most healthcare
organizations
- Technology Evolution
- CDS today is varied, though CDS tomorrow will cover an even broader range
of solutions
- The modern healthcare system needs new ways to access traditional
reference materials
- Many healthcare organizations would benefit from outsourcing the
development of clinical standards
- Data mining will allow providers to truly practice evidence-based
medicine
- Tools of the future will be patient-centric and focus on diagnosis
- Healthcare is picking low hanging fruit now, but will use more advanced
tools in the future
- Applying business intelligence tools to clinical data will create
clinical intelligence
- Customer Impact: Effectively Implementing CDS
- Despite the fact that it is a well-known pitfall,hospitals are still
plagued with alert fatigue
- The quality of patient data will determine the quality of CI results
- Interoperability is not just a technology issue
- Go to Market
- Recommendations
- CDS vendors should establish relationships with leading EHR vendors to
promote interoperability
- The vendor and medical communities must come together to create and
abide by set standards
- Technology vendors need to encourage, not follow, their clients by
educating the market
- Vendors must be acutely aware of how they position their products in
the market
- CDS solutions need to continue to mature through input from end users
- APPENDIX
- Definitions
- Methodology
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
- Datamonitor consulting
- Disclaimer
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: The various types of CDS will be implemented in stages
- Figure 2: The adoption of CDS solutions will increase over time
- Figure 3: Effectively implementing CDS is often difficult