Clinical Decision Support Standards to Facilitate Incorporation of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Latest Developments and What You Need to Know

Presentation Time: 01:00 PM - 04:30 PM

Abstract Keywords: Clinical Decision Support, Standards, Interoperability and Health Information Exchange
Primary Track: Applications
Programmatic Theme: Clinical Informatics

Clinical decision support (CDS) can help improve clinical practice and health behaviors. Artificial intelligence (AI), with its focus on reasoning, knowledge representation, planning and natural language processing, has been key to CDS since its beginning, and the rise of generative AI only has reinforced this linkage. The use of health information technology (HIT) standards for encoding data, representing knowledge and delivering knowledge-based interventions in turn can help facilitate implementation of CDS. However, many standards from numerous standards development organizations (SDOs) exist, and consensus on the best use of these standards is lacking. Moreover, new work on CDS standards related to clinical quality measurement and value-based health care has increased the complexity of this domain.

Accordingly, the leaders of this half-day collaborative workshop, who are the elected co-chairs of the HL7 CDS Work Group, will address two educational objectives focused on CDS standards that facilitate quality improvement and value-based care. First, attendees will learn details of and latest developments in HIT standards used for CDS and which attendees may need to use, including how those standards represent and provide access to AI functionality. Second, attendees will recognize how these standards relate to one another and can be used to implement CDS that improves outcomes. These include the HL7 Arden Syntax, Clinical Quality Language (CQL), CDS Hooks, SMART on FHIR, FHIRcast, and FHIR Clinical Reasoning standards. Through interaction with workshop leaders via directed discussion and a small-group exercise, attendees will contribute ideas regarding development, refinement and use of standards to facilitate CDS.

Speaker(s):
Robert Jenders, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, FHL7, FAMIA
Charles Drew University/UCLA

Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, MHS
University of Utah

Bryn Rhodes, BA
Smile Digital Health

Howard Strasberg, MD, MS,
Wolters Kluwer Health

Isaac Vetter, BS
Epic

Robert Jenders, MD, FACP, FACMI
Charles Drew University/UCLA

Bryn Rhodes
Dynamic Content Group