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First published January 9, 2007 as JAMIA PrePrint; doi:10.1197/jamia.M2298
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J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007;14:146-155. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2298.
© 2007 American Medical Informatics Association

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Proposal for Fulfilling Strategic Objectives of the U.S. Roadmap for National Action on Decision Support through a Service-oriented Architecture Leveraging HL7 Services

Kensaku Kawamoto, PhD1,* and David F. Lobach, MD, PhD, MS2

Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC.

* Correspondence and reprints: Kensaku Kawamoto, PhD, Division of Clinical Informatics, DUMC Box 2914, Durham, NC 27710. (Email: kawam001{at}mc.duke.edu).

Received for publication: 10/03/06; accepted for publication: 12/12/06.

Despite their demonstrated effectiveness, clinical decision support (CDS) systems are not widely used within the U.S. The Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support, published in June 2006 by the American Medical Informatics Association, identifies six strategic objectives for achieving widespread adoption of effective CDS capabilities. In this manuscript, we propose a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for CDS that facilitates achievement of these six objectives. Within the proposed framework, CDS capabilities are implemented through the orchestration of independent software services whose interfaces are being standardized by Health Level 7 and the Object Management Group through their joint Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP). Core services within this framework include the HSSP Decision Support Service, the HSSP Common Terminology Service, and the HSSP Retrieve, Locate, and Update Service. Our experiences, and those of others, indicate that the proposed SOA approach to CDS could enable the widespread adoption of effective CDS within the U.S. health care system.




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