Primary and Preventative Health Services - Primary and Preventative Heath Services - Request for Information: RFI - 26 - 2099 - Clinical Appropriateness Tools

Description

This Request for Information (RFI) seeks to gather insights into existing and emerging Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools that are, or could be, deployed within community EMRs to support clinically appropriate prescribing. The intent is to better understand how such solutions could support clinically appropriate prescribing at the point of care, the technical and integration considerations involved, and whether vendors already have established integrations with community EMRs (either in Alberta or comparable jurisdictions) and how this positions such solutions for deployment within Alberta’s current health system environment. In Alberta, prescribers (physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, registered nurses with prescribing authority, etc.) operate across a heterogeneous digital health landscape. In community settings, numerous electronic medical record (EMR) systems are in u