The Surveillance Model of Medicine — Part I
The Emerging Surveillance Model of Medicine
Interoperability is driving massive changes to the US health care model…
In my last piece, we discussed the expansion of health information technology (HIT), the surveillance model of medicine, and how interoperability is driving massive changes to the US health care model.
One way that interoperability is being expanded is through Clinical Decisions Support (CDS). I previously provided an overview of CDS which is essentially an IT solution that’s being leveraged within the electronic health record (EHR) as workflows, however, what we are going to talk about today is a specific program that utilizes CDS called CDS Connect.
For a detailed description of both CDS and interoperability, you’ll really want to read Emerging Technology & Deregulation: What it Means for a Free Society. If you haven’t read that yet, I encourage you to at least scan it for definitions.
CDS Connect
The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) has partnered with the MITRE Corporation to build a new CDS application program interface (API) called CDS Connect. CDS Connect is the system that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will use to…
