Towards Meaningful Medication-Related Clinical Decision Support: Recommendations for an Initial Implementation

S. Phansalkar; A. Wright; G.J. Kuperman; A.J. Vaida; A.M. Bobb; R.A. Jenders; T.H. Payne; J. Halamka; M. Bloomrosen; D.W. Bates

doi:10.4338/ACI-2010-04-RA-0026

Applied Clinical Informatics, Table of Contents

Appl Clin Inform 2011; 02(01): 50-62
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2010-04-RA-0026

Research Article

Schattauer GmbH

Towards Meaningful Medication-Related Clinical Decision Support: Recommendations for an Initial Implementation

S. Phansalkar

¹Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

²Partners HealthCare System, Wellesley, MA

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A. Wright

¹Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

²Partners HealthCare System, Wellesley, MA

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G.J. Kuperman

³New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

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A.J. Vaida

⁴Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA

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A.M. Bobb

⁵Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

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R.A. Jenders

⁶National Library of Medicine, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

¹⁰Georgetown University. Washington, DC

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T.H. Payne

⁷Biomedical and Health Informatics, and UW Medicine Information Technology Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

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J. Halamka

⁸Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA

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M. Bloomrosen

⁹The American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, MD

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D.W. Bates

¹Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

²Partners HealthCare System, Wellesley, MA

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Keywords

Clinical decision support - decision support systems - CDS - medication alerting - drug-drug interactions - therapeutic duplication - medical informatics

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