Healthcare Innovation January 16, 2020
Project leaders discuss the challenges of implementing ambitious technical goals, including using FHIR and CDS Hooks
Two ongoing projects supported by the federal Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research are developing patient-facing and clinician-facing shareable clinical decision support (CDS) to improve chronic pain care and reduce opioid dependency. During a Jan. 15 webinar, project leaders discussed the challenges of implementing ambitious technical goals, including using FHIR and the SMART project’s CDS Hooks.
Since 2016 AHRQ has been supporting efforts to make CDS more shareable, standards-based, and publicly available. One component of the initiative, CDS Connect, focuses on prototype infrastructure for sharing CDS resources. In 2018 CDS Connect focused on chronic pain management, including developing an interoperable pain management summary or...