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Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

Penn Medicine has a three part mission of patient care, education and research, with the patient care mission rooted in providing the highest quality and safest care possible. The Office of the Chief Medical Officer is accountable for patient care quality and safety, and has established the Blueprint for Quality and Patient Safety to guide these efforts.  The mission of the clinical decision support (CDS) program at Penn will be to facilitate clinical decision making consistent with the goals of the Blueprint so as to provide patients with the highest quality, safest and highest value care.


CDS Activities

  


The Penn Medicine CDS Workgroup will be formalized by a charter established within the Center for Evidence-based Practice (CEP), and led by the Director of CEP, who will report on CDS activities to the CMIO.

Operational activities will include:
1. Evaluating and prioritizing new CDS proposals
2. Requesting evidence reviews to guide CDS interventions when appropriate
3. Monitoring CDS implementations
4. Regularly evaluating and cataloguing implemented CDS interventions (including those implemented prior to workgroup formation)
5. Making recommendations for more rigorous epidemiologic and/or economic evaluations of select interventions

The workgroup will meet weekly to review proposals. Proposals evaluated by the CDS Workgroup can be submitted via direct submission of proposals by individuals via the HelpDesk which may then be forwarded to the workgroup by the Inpatient EMR Prioritization or the Outpatient EMR Operations Committees if they meet specific criteria.

To be forwarded to the CDS workgroup, proposals need to support the Blueprint for Quality or Evidence Based Practice initiatives at Penn, and must be computerized CDSs, including CPOE, protocol support, information buttons, alerts or reminders.  The Workgroup will report activities quarterly to the Clinical IT Governance Committee.

CDS Workgroup Members

Primary:  

Secondary:

Craig A Umscheid, MD, MSCE
Chair, CEP Director; HUP

Kendal Williams, MD, MPH
Co-Chair, CEP Co-Director; PPMC

Myra Lazo

Joel Betesh, MD
Co-Chair, PAH  

Jeremy Souder, MD

Lee Goldberg, MD
Epic Super User
J.T. Howell, MD

Michael Posencheg, MD
Sunrise Super User

Jeremy Souder, MD

Terese Kornet, RN
Nursing Representative     
   

Denise Gilanelli

Nishaminy Kasbekar, PharmD
Pharmacy Representative      
   
Richard Demers

John Salmon
Director of Sunrise EMR  
   
Mika Epps

Philynn Hepscmidt
Director of EPIC EMR
John Amero

Christine Vanzandbergen
Clinical Decision Support Officer

  

Ad Hoc Members:  

Alternates:

Curt Langlotz, MD, PhD
Radiology Representative

Brian Wells
Associate CIO for Health Technology and Research Computing, Penn Medicine

Tracy Christie

Cindy Jones
Associate CIO, IS Applications

Jerry Osheroff, MD
CDS Academic

 

 
 
 


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