The Reports Tab > Clinical Decision Support > Viewing Recommendations

Viewing Recommendations

As part of the Clinical Decision Support feature, individual patient care is monitored to ensure that the patient is receiving the appropriate level of routine clinical care as well as proper disease management and preventative care (such as immunizations). When a safety issue (such as a drug to disease interaction) or a gap in care is identified for a patient, a link (which includes a count of items) for recommendations displays on the patient’s summary to allow you easy access to the complete list off recommendations for the patient.

Notes:

• The links to the patient recommendations indicate how many recommendations are available for the patient. The links are updated every time you access a patient summary. If you want to refresh the page at any time to make sure that you are viewing the most up‑to‑date information for the patient alerts, click that is available to the right of the alerts.

• If the system is down and cannot display the patient alerts and recommendations, a message displays in place of the links to notify you that the service is temporarily unavailable.

• Information in encounter notes that have been marked erroneous will be excluded from all clinical decision reporting.

You can access the following information by clicking the Active Lab Recommendations link on the Quick View page or the Care Recommendation link on the patient summary (when they are available):

• Active Lab Recommendations. The number of recommendations for patients in your organization who are identified as having lab result values which suggest further lab testing may be necessary. Counts include the total number of active and dismissed recommendations, and the number of patients with recommendations. For more information on viewing lab recommendation, see Viewing Patient Population Alerts.

Note: If a patient has a priority lab that needs to be reordered for more than one guideline, the patient is only counted once, but each guideline is counted individually.

• Care Recommendations. Recommendations describe the clinical event that is suggested, or recommended, for the patient. These recommendations help you comply with specific industry best practice recommendations for patient care.

View Care Recommendations for a Patient

View Active Lab Recommendations for the Organization