Clinical Decision Support

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Mission

This group supports the HL7 mission to create and promote its standards by working on issues related to single-patient-focused and population health care decision support capabilities. The work group will focus on development of standards to support system-agnostic implementations of clinical decision support, including messages, services, information models, and knowledge representation formalisms.

Charter

The role of this work group is to (a) identify the scope and range of information models and knowledge representation formalisms required for the functionality of decision support capabilities; (b) work with other HL7 work groups and outside organizations to identify appropriate controlled vocabularies for encoding data elements required for decision support; and (c) identify or define messages, objects and services required to support the specific information exchange needs of decision support applications, both as feeders to decision support applications and as output from decision support applications.

Work Products and Contributions to HL7 Processes

Work on standards for representation and presentation of knowledge in health care decision support, including Decision Support Services, Infobuttons, Order Sets, event-condition-action rules, documentation templates, clinical practice guidelines, etc.

Work will include patient-centered monitoring, alerts and reminders

Work will include population-centric monitoring and management, including support of quality measures and surveillance of disease and adverse events.

Maintain an expression language for clinical decision support

Contribute to data models required for clinical decision support

Create or contribute to standards for components required by decision support applications, including those between decision support and other applications

Help develop authoring, demonstration and validation software tools for clinical decision support

Formal Relationships With Other HL7 Groups

The Clinical Decision Support Work Group maintains a strong working relationship with the Arden Syntax Work Group, insofar as the Arden Syntax is a particular knowledge formalism for health care decision support. This work group collaborates with the Clinical Genomics, Orders and Observations, Patient Care and Structured Documents work groups on projects that have decision support dimensions. Through the HL7 Services Oriented Architecture Work Group, the Clinical Decision Support Work Group also collaborates with the Object Management Group on standards.