Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Decision Support Tools

• Based on TCNY measures
• Passive alerts and reminders
  • Wary of "alert fatigue"
  • Minimal set
  • Actionable (Order, Historical Order or Suppress)
  • Consonant with workflows, not disruptive
• Not just alerts
  • Order sets, templates, clinical knowledge, data presentation, process reengineering