The amount of information we need to understand is getting so untenable that it’s unreasonable to expect the average clinician to integrate all of it into their decision-making effectively and reliably
The CDS Hooks specification describes the RESTful APIs and interactions to integrate Clinical Decision Support (CDS) between CDS Clients (typically Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs) or other health information systems) and CDS Services.
hooks which are pre-agreements about the minimum data requirements for a pre-defined workflow like viewing a patient record or signing a prescription order.hook in the form of context and prefetch parameters. Services execute their own rules and return one or many Cards that present information, provide actionable suggestions, and initiate SMART App launch sequences.