CUD2V/amia2020-cds-workshop

Materials and Instructions for the AMIA 2020 CDS Workshop - CDS Development Tutorial

Workshop 01 - The New Digital Age of Clinical Decision Support Tools: Open-Source and Interoperable Approaches for Health Systems

Andrey Soares, PhD¹; Majid Afshar*, MD, MSCR²; Joshua E. Richardson*, PhD, MS, MLIS³; Chris Moesel⁴; Anthony Solomonides, PhD⁵; Eleanor Barone*, MD⁶; Eric Pan*, MD⁷; Michael A. Grasso, MD, PhD⁸; Lisa Schilling, MD, MSPH¹; on behalf of the AMIA Clinical Decision Support Working Group*

¹University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; ²Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL; ³RTI International, Chicago, IL; ⁴MITRE Corporation, Maclean, VA; ⁵Northshore University, Evanston, IL; ⁶Veterans Administration Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC; ⁷Westat, Rockville, MD; ⁸University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

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Educational Objectives:

• Acquire a comprehensive knowledge of existing CDS tools and resources.
• Be able to author CDS rules (aka artifacts) in a test or production EHR environment.
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of the different publically available CDS tools
• Run a CDS tool from end-to-end.

Prerequisites:

• Register for a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Account. It might take 3-5 business days to get approval.
• You need Oracle VirtualBox installed on your computer
• Install CDS Sandbox VM and setup the virtual machine on your personal computer (~30-45 minutes, depending on internet speed).
• Review the CDS Authoring Tool User Guide

Download VM from here: CDS Sandbox VM_11082020.ova

Prerequisite instructions: AMIA 2020 Workshop01 Prerequisites.pdf

Slack channel: #the-new-digital-age-of-cds-tools

Acknowledgements:

We would like to thank the organizations and contributors to the technologies and open-source tools used in this tutorial.

• AHRQ
• Cqframework
• HAPI FHIR
• HL7
• MITRE Corporation
• SMART Health IT

Disclosure:

The content in this tutorial is up to date as of October 2020 and is derived directly from open-source materials. The tools are presented “As is”. Please refer to the original software repositories and documentation for updates and version control. The materials and content displayed in this workshop do not reflect the official policy or position of any agency, organization, or employer. The authors do not accept any responsibility for any of the source materials and software.

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Presenters

• Introduction (5 minutes) - Led by Majid Afshar
• Part I Didactic: Scoping Review of CDS Tools (30 minutes) - Led by Chris Moesel
• Part II Interactive Content Delivery: CDS Hands-On Simulation (120 minutes) - Led by Andrey Soares
• Summation and Discussion (25 minutes) - Led by Lisa Schilling
• Facilitators: Majid Afshar, Joshua E. Richardson, Chris Moesel, Anthony Solomonides, Eleanor Barone, Eric Pan, Michael A. Grasso, Lisa Schilling

Support and Help

During the workshop, the presenters will be available to answer questions through Q&A.

The presenters have created a Slack channel to engage participants and provide help on setting up their VMs and tools. The Slack channel is: #the-new-digital-age-of-cds-tools. This Slack channel will be maintained for the duration of the AMIA 2020 Symposium.