HI 5303 Evidence based Medicine and Clinical Decision Support
he development and strength of evidence and its application in health care deliver will be the prelude to the design, implementation, operation, and evaluation of clinical decision support (CDS) in the context of electronic health records and other clinical information systems. Topics to be addressed include making clinical decisions, five rights of clinical decision support (information, person, intervention formats, channel, and point/time in workflow), methods of clinical decision support, CDS design, Implementation and operation of CDS, assessment of CDS, and knowledge management in healthcare, legal aspects of CDS including unexpected consequences, and business decision support. Students will be expected to analyze and predict the impact of novel CDS on workflow and provider and patient satisfaction and will be required to develop examples of decision support.