EBMEDS® Clinical Decision Support

The Evidence-Based Medicine electronic Decision Support (EBMEDS) system brings evidence into practice by means of context-sensitive guidance at the point of care.

EBMEDS receives structured patient data from electronic health records (EHRs) and returns reminders, therapeutic suggestions and diagnosis-specific links to guidelines. It can also be used to automatically prefill forms and calculators with patient specific data. In addition to real-time use, the EBMEDS decision support rules can also be run in patient populations (CareGap analysis).

Integration

EBMEDS is a platform-independent service, which can be integrated into any EHR containing structured patient data. It is based on a simple but efficient technology, and both installing and updating the system is easy.

Developer

EBMEDS is developed by Duodecim Medical Publications Ltd, a Finnish company owned by the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim. Both the association and the company have a long-standing collaborative relationship with the Cochrane Collaboration, the GRADE Working Group and the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N).

All end-users of the EBMEDS service can contribute to the development of new scripts. The simplest way of contribution is to send a suggestion of a script idea to the EBMEDS editorial team. End-users are also offered free access to the EBMEDS Script Description Editor, a web-based editing tool for collaboratory development of evidence-based decision support rules. The use of script description editor requires registration.