HL7 Standard: Clinical Decision Support Knowledge Artifact Specification, Release 1.3

This standard supports the development of clinical decision support (CDS) knowledge artefacts. The approach is designed to be flexible and reusable, and to provide a baseline for CDS vendors and CDS knowledge artefact implementers.

The specification defined in this document is based on a harmonisation of existing standards and specifications as the primary mechanism for structuring knowledge artefacts. It focuses not only on structure but also on semantics through the use of standard terminologies, value sets and taxonomies.

This standard serves as a companion document for the CDS Knowledge Artifact schema, and includes additional background, contextual information, and detailed documentation and guidance to support schema implementation.

Main sections:

· CDS knowledge artefact types

· CDS knowledge artefact components

· Schema references

· Referenced documents

· HeD Schema Framework

· Examples

· Schema

· Supplementary files