Organizations should improve the options available to providers who choose to override drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts. We found wide variability in override reasons and many opportunities to improve alerts.
CDS alert malfunctions are frequent. The empirically derived taxonomy formalizes the common recurring issues that cause these malfunctions, helping CDS developers anticipate and prevent CDS malfunctions before they occur or detect and resolve them expediently.
The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) guides were released in 2014 to help health systems conduct proactive risk assessment of electronic health record (EHR)- safety related policies, processes, procedures, and configurations. The extent to which SAFER recommendations are followed is unknown.
PURPOSE: To explore the need for, and use of, high-quality, collaborative, clinical knowledge management (CKM) tools and techniques to manage clinical decision support (CDS) content. METHODS: In order to better understand the current state of the art in CKM, we developed a survey of potential CKM tools and techniques. We […]
