Morningside Initiative Concept Paper

Collaborative Development of a Knowledge Management Repository to Accelerate Adoption of Clinical Decision Support

Acknowledgments

The authors and participants of the Morningside meeting would like to acknowledge and thank the organizations and participants who have contributed their efforts and expertise to the development of the Knowledge Management Repository concept paper. It is hoped that this plan will assist in moving Clinical Decision Support to the forefront of the National Agenda and assist caregivers in providing the highest level of care and services possible.

Support has been provided by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) of the U.S. Army Medical and Materiel Command to make this meeting possible. We would further like to thank the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) for its guidance and efforts. Each participating organization has contributed its’ support, content and expertise in an on-going and collegial manner. Dr. Robert Greenes, and Meryl Bloomrosen have been involved in, and provided valuable input to, each step of planning and execution of this initiative.

The expertise, perspective, professionalism and effort of all members of the Morningside meeting has been invaluable in the development of the Knowledge Management Repository and concepts contained in this paper for the sharing of clinical decision support resources. Comments and input from the National Coordinator’s Office for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services and AHRQ, were greatly appreciated during the meeting.

The Morningside group would like to thank the following organizations who have submitted Letters of Support for this endeavor: Northwest Permanente and Oregon Health & Science University, Henry Ford Health System, Department of Defense Tri-care Management Activity and the Veteran’s Health Administration.

The content submission form was adapted from one developed by Christopher Tsai, M.D., M.P.H., a postdoctoral fellow in the Decision Systems Group, and then refined and edited for use in the knowledge management repository by Mark Graber M.D., Veterans Health Administration and Vipul Kashyap, Ph.D., Partners Health Care.

A special thank you to Rob Sharma, TATRC, Vipul Kashyap, Partners Health Care and Hemant Shah, Henry Ford Health System, along with the individuals of the Technology WorkingGroup who have spent many hours to develop the first demonstration version of the knowledge management repository website.

Content for the Knowledge Management Repository demonstration website has been provided by LTC Nhan Do M.D., for the Department of Defense, Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D., Northwest Permanente and Oregon Health & Science University, Robert N. Enberg M.D., Henry Ford Health System and Brad Doebbeling M.D., Veterans Health Administration. Members of each Committee have contributed their time and expertise and are listed below.