CDSiC Resources

Incorporating Patient Preferences in Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support 

Publication Date:

June 25, 2025

Patient preferences can support a patient’s care experience and healthcare decision making. This resource shows different methods and timepoints in a patient’s care journey when their preferences can be collected and used in patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS). 

CDSiC Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup Charter - Option Year 2

Publication Date:

December 6, 2024

The Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup Option Year 2 Charter is a document that describes the roles and key activities of the Workgroup under the CDSiC Stakeholder Community and Outreach Center.

Advancing patient-centered clinical decision support in today’s health care ecosystem: key themes from the Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative’s 2023 Annual Meeting

Publication Date:

October 23, 2024

This article published in JAMIA Open summarizes key themes that arose from stakeholder discussions at the inaugural Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC) 2023 Annual Meeting. The authors analyzed compiled meeting notes to synthesize key themes and concluded that innovative approaches are needed to ensure patients’ and caregivers’ voices are meaningfully included to advance PC CDS. Click here to read the article. 

Infographic: Patient Preferences Are Essential to Bringing the Patient Into Focus

Publication Date:

September 20, 2024

Patient preferences are an essential component of the patient voice, and their subsequent use in patient-centered clinical decision support can advance patient-centered care.

Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup: Capturing Patient Preferences for Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Within Patient Lifeflows and Clinical Workflows

Publication Date:

August 1, 2024

This report offers various methods for capturing different types of patient preference data and visualizes these within patient lifeflows and clinical workflows.

Measurement and Outcomes Workgroup: Patient Prioritization of Measurement Areas for Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support

Publication Date:

July 24, 2024

This report aims to identify what measurement areas within the patient health journey are important to patients when determining if patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) is achieving its intended purpose.

Implementation, Adoption, and Scaling Workgroup: Landscape Assessment on the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Scale PC CDS

Publication Date:

July 11, 2024

This report assesses use of artificial intelligence to scale patient-centered clinical decision support.

Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support

Publication Date:

July 8, 2024

This report provides descriptions of patient and caregiver perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence in patient-centered clinical decision support.

Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Challenges and Opportunities Identified from Workflow Execution Models

Publication Date:

June 22, 2024

This article, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), uses workflow execution models to highlight new considerations for patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) policies, processes, procedures, technology, and expertise required to support new workflows. Implementing and working with these new PC CDS-focused workflow execution models can lead to long-term positive impacts on patient health.

Measurement and Outcomes Workgroup: Patient Preference Measurement Tools for PC CDS Inventory Spreadsheet

Publication Date:

June 20, 2024

This inventory spreadsheet identifies available patient preference measurement tools from the literature to support the incorporation of patient preferences into PC CDS tools.