Cirrus has a window for setting Clinical Decision Support alerts and messages that will be displayed on every clinical process window (e.g. Physician Dashboard, Nurse Dashboard, forms) when required. By adding these rules, you can make sure that the organization members receive clinical decision alerts, warnings and notifications for managing some patient processes.
Here's the step-by-step of this configuration.
Settings Needed
Only for ECS Staff - Request it via ticket or chat
In order to enable the Clinical Decision Support module, your organization must have the Clinical Decision Support check enabled in the Improvement Settings window :
Message Configuration
In order to set the rules and messages for a clinical decision protocol, follow these steps :
Go to Rules for clinical decision support.
Click on New Record.
Enter Name (Name of rules protocol), then select Type, which could be any of the following :
Diagnosis
Mail Notification
Patient List
Reminder
Warning
Now, select to whom will this alert be visible (All, Nurse/Assistant, Physician) and enter Message, this is the message that will be shown to staff when meeting the rules that will be added.
Save changes.
Demo :
Rules Configuration
Now, in order to add rules for this protocol, follow these steps:
4. Click on Add icon.
Select Rule Type (Demographics, Diagnostic, Lab Results, Medications, Questionnaires, Services, Vital).
Now fill item details and Save changes after completing. Some rules have an add icon where you can add multiple diagnoses, medications, services.
Save changes.
You can add multiple rules, to add more rules repeat step 4.
Demo :
In our example we created a Risk Factor warning for Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 with the following criteria :
Diagnostic rule for an active Diabetes Type 2 diagnostic.
Demographic rule for Age (35 years old or more).
If any patient meets this criteria, users will see our message suggesing them to do a Hemoblogin A1C (HbA1c) Test.
Example
Now, in order to display this message we created a test patient and added a Type 2 Diabetes diagnostic.
This is where warning messages will appear :
And if you click on it, you will see the message that we filled in the protocol header :
We hope this improves your Cirrus experience. Remember to share this information and ask for help if you need it.Date: June 12, 2023.