HealthIT Answers July 1, 2024
By Edwin Lomotan, M.D., James Swiger, M.B.E., and Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D., AHRQ
Clinical decision support (CDS) has emerged as an important tool to improve the quality and safety of patient care. Not coincidentally, CDS has been a consistent focal point for AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program.
CDS harnesses the use of technology in healthcare decision-making to provide the right information to the right people at the right times in the right format, and it’s built on the understanding that the capacity to collect, transmit, and interpret enormous amounts of data can get the most current science into the hands of those who need it.
AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program, which this year commemorates its 20th anniversary, has supported CDS...