Clinical Decision Support in Healthcare - One step closer to the Omniscient Clinician (Strategic Focus)

Published by: Datamonitor

Published: May. 22, 2008

Table of Contents

Overview

Catalyst

Summary

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

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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

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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

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