Provide Access to Appropriate Use Criteria

Type	Standard / Implementation Specification	Standards Process Maturity	Implementation Maturity	Adoption Level	Federally required	Cost	Test Tool Availability
Standard	HL7® CDS Hooks Services	Final	Production		No	Free	Yes

Limitations, Dependencies, and Preconditions for Consideration	Applicable Security Patterns for Consideration
The CDS Hooks specification describes the RESTful APIs and interactions between EHRs and CDS Services. Guideline Appropriate Ordering using CDS Hooks, is a stakeholder-led initiative and part of the Argonaut project, supports Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) requirements. Note that the maturity level of FHIR resources may vary and is described with the specification itself.	Feedback requested.

Comment

Submitted by kwboone on 2017-11-20

GAO has no resources to continue the work.

Submitted by pwilson@ncpdp.org on 2017-11-20

The Drug Utilization Review segment within the NCPDP Telecommunication Standard Implementation Guide, Version D, Release 0 (Version D.0), August 2010, enables clinical decision support. The Observation Segment within the NCPDP SCRIPT Standard, Implementation Guide, Version 10.6 enables clinical decision support (e.g. weight segment and diagnosis code).
NCPDP provides additional guidance and recommendations that enables clinical decision support. (e.g.: mL guidance document: NCPDP Recommendations and Guidance for Standardizing the Dosing Designations on Prescription Container Labels of Oral Liquid Medications).