Clinical Decision Support in Healthcare - One Step Closer to The Omniscient Clinician (Strategic Focus)

Content

• 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
  • 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
  • Ask the analyst
  • Datamonitor consulting
  • 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