Medication Safety (MedSafe) Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

Using VA electronic clinical data, the Medication Safety (MedSafe) Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system analyzes current clinical management for diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease, and makes patient-specific, evidence-based recommendations to primary care providers.  The system uses knowledge bases that encode clinical practice guideline recommendations and an automated execution engine to examine multiple comorbidities, laboratory test results, medications, and history of adverse drug events in evaluating patient clinical status and generating patient-specific recommendations.