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Table 3 Vendor responses to clinical decision support and knowledge management questions

From: Comparison of clinical knowledge management capabilities of commercially-available and leading internally-developed electronic health records

Questions

EHR: 1

EHR: 2

EHR: 3

EHR: 4

EHR: 5

EHR: 6

EHR: 7

EHR: 8

EHR: 9

CIS modules with CDS?

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

EHR delivery model?

Onsite or Remote host

Onsite or Remote host

Onsite or Remote host

Onsite or Remote host

On site only

Onsite or Remote host

Onsite or Remote host

Onsite or Remote host

Onsite or Remote host

CDS content implemented, configured, maintained by customer or vendor?

Customer

Vendor

Vendor

Vendor

Vendor

Customer

Vendor

Customer

Vendor

Collect structured data - controlled vocabularies?

Y - multiple

Y - multiple

Y - multiple

Y - multiple

Y - multiple

Y - multiple

Y - multiple

Y - multiple

Y - multiple

Support ad-hoc queries? Live replicating database?

Ye -live db

Yes - db replicated

Yes. No db

Yes.

Yes - Yes

Yes - Yes

Yes - daily update db

Report library - no

Yes-db replicated

HL7 InfoButton?

Yes

Nonstandard

No

No

Nonstandard

Yes

No

Nonstandard

Yes

Arden Syntax for MLM?

Yes

No

No

No

Nonstandard

No

No

Yes

Yes

Clinical knowledge editor for user to create CDS?

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Content mgmt system separate from EHR?

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

Reporting capability to track effect/usage of CDS?

Yes

Yes.

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

N/A

Yes

Drug database supplier?

Multum, FDB

FDB

Proprietary and FDB.

Medi- Span and FDB

FDB, Medi-Span, Lexicomp, Micromedex

FDB

FDB

FDB

Multum MediSource

3rd party CDS content vendors?

Zynx

Multiple

No

No

Multiple

No

No

No

Zynx

Provide clinical content (starter sets). How often and is it updated?

Y- client community

Y- via web

Y-via web

Yes-irregular

Y-1x/year

Y- irregular

Y - irregular

Y-biweekly via web

Y-1x/year

On-line collaborative knowledge development environment (web 2.0)?

Yes, SharePoint

No, listserv

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No, listserv

Yes

Internet repository for clients to share CDS?

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes