In this special issue of the Open Medical Informatics Journal, four papers are presented describing various approaches to the general problem of scaling clinical decision support (CDS) – providing CDS across potentially multiple electronic medical record systems (EMR) in varying clinical practice environments, and the methods of representing, encoding, and sharing knowledge to support such serv...

OBJECTIVE To develop and test an instrument for assessing a healthcare organization's ability to mitigate malpractice risk through clinical decision support (CDS). MATERIALS AND METHODS Based on a previously collected malpractice data set, we identified common types of CDS and the number and cost of malpractice cases that might have been prevented through this CDS. We then designed clinical v...