| Issue Number 29 | May 28, 2025 |
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| In this edition of the Insider, we highlight several AHRQ CDSiC updates, including a new publication, products focused on advancing the use of patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) tools by clinicians, upcoming conference presentations, and the project's recent Annual Meeting. |
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The Journal of Medical Internet Research recently published a new paper developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Innovation Center. The paper presents a framework that incorporates patient-centered principles into traditional health IT and CDS evaluation frameworks to create a unified guide to PC CDS performance measurement.
The new PC CDS performance measurement framework includes six domains – safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered – and 34 subdomains. Stakeholders can select the domains that best align with their particular PC CDS intervention or specific research focus. The paper also highlights two illustrative use cases that demonstrate how to apply the framework.
Together, these findings support a fuller understanding of the breadth of performance and impact of PC CDS technology. Read the full paper here! |
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PC CDS tools are valuable resources for clinicians seeking to foster decision-making informed by both the latest evidence base and patient-reported information. Given that clinicians are essential to the adoption and use of PC CDS, the AHRQ CDSiC has long prioritized creating resources for this key stakeholder group.
The AHRQ CDSiC has released several products clinicians can use to inform the development and implementation and PC CDS and ultimately advance patient-centered care. These include:
- A practical planning and reporting tool and accompanying user guide that clinicians can use before, during, and after PC CDS implementation to consistently describe how PC CDS was designed, deployed, and evaluated.
- A report that examines how clinical organizations can measure the effect of PC CDS interventions on care team workflows and patient lifeflows.
- A manuscript, published in Applied Clinical Informatics, which identifies best practices in clinician-facing visualizations of patient-generated health data to inform the design of PC CDS tools.
To see more clinician resources developed by the AHRQ CDSiC, click here! |
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We look forward to AcademyHealth's upcoming Annual Research Meeting (ARM), which will take place from June 7-10 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. NORC at the University of Chicago and the AHRQ CDSiC will be featured in two posters of interest to the PC CDS community.
More information about these sessions can be found at the links below. - Date: June 9 from 8:00-9:15am CT
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On May 6 and 7, 2025, stakeholders were invited to convene virtually for the third AHRQ CDSiC Annual Meeting. The meeting featured the theme Smarter Health: Supporting Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Where It Matters Most. Throughout the two-day meeting, participants engaged in interactive presentations on the AHRQ CDSiC's innovative work thus far and sessions highlighting new directions for the field, such as strategies to optimize PC CDS for patients, methods to strengthen the implementation of PC CDS in real-world settings, and new frontiers in the use of artificial intelligence.
The meeting also featured a discussion session on opportunities to advance PC CDS, where participants could share their insights on key directions for the field. The discussion focused on two critical topics: - Advancing PC CDS to support evolving national health priorities, such as empowering patients in the prevention and management of chronic conditions.
- Strategies to leverage PC CDS to facilitate health systems' participation in value-based care models, such as by using PC CDS to support the delivery of evidence-based care and account for patients' unique needs and preferences.
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