Can the CDS Collaborative for Performance Improvement Advance Your Quality Improvement Efforts?

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. More than 200 participants (including many SI members) are engaged in the CDS Collaborative for Performance Improvement, which is focused on helping many inter-dependent stakeholders accelerate the successful use of clinical decision support (CDS) to improve care delivery and outcomes. The Collaborative is supporting the ONC CDS4MU project (developing tools and resources for CDS-enabled quality improvement for Meaningful Use), and also the CHCF-funded ‘Closing the Gap’ project (to address CDS recommendations in a recent IOM report). Dr. Osheroff, (the Collaborative’s founder), will provide an overview of the initiative and the offshoots mentioned above, outline opportunities for SI members to engage, and facilitates a discussion to help participants take advantage of these opportunities.