Summary:
Clinical decision support (CDS) enables providers and others to implement up-to-date research findings quickly into their practice. In 2016, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supported the development of (CDS) by establishing CDS Connect, a platform to assist the healthcare community in creating and disseminating CDS artifacts. In 2023, AHRQ conducted a CDS Connect Challenge Competition to identify business models and platform enhancements that will allow CDS Connect to evolve its role as a national CDS hub. Based on the results of this Challenge Competition, AHRQ has issued the following Request for Information (RFI) to solicit ideas and identify possible collaborators for creating a new sustainment model (such as a Public Private Partnership [PPP] between AHRQ and a third-party organization) that ensures CDS Connect's future operations.