CDS FRAMEWORK

The creation of the CDS Framework was initiated by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Immunization, Citywide Immunization Registry (CIR) when it launched a project in 2011 to replace their existing immunization clinical decision support system with a new system, called the Immunization Calculation Engine (Home). HLN Consulting, LLC, which has been the CIR's provider of Health IT consulting services since 2000, researched technologies that could be leveraged for this effort and selected OpenCDS as a toolkit and a platform for implementing ICE. The CIR invited the Alabama Department of Public Health to join the CIR and HLN in a subject matter expert (SME) workgroup to specify and document the clinical decision support rules for ICE. HLN software developers then implemented the documented ICE rules within OpenCDS... One of CIR's requirements for their new ICE software system was a web-based application that would enable subject matter experts who are not..