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We aimed to develop a maturity model that describes a roadmap toward organizational functions and processes that help health care systems use CDS more effectively to drive better outcomes. We developed a maturity model for CDS operations through discussions with health care leaders at 80 organizations, iterative model development by four clinical informaticists, and subsequent review with 19 health care organizations. We ceased iterations when feedback from three organizations did not result in any changes to the model. The proposed CDS maturity model includes three main \u201cpillars\u201d: \u201cContent Creation,\u201d \u201cAnalytics and Reporting,\u201d and \u201cGovernance and Management.\u201d Each pillar contains five levels\u2014advancing along each pillar provides CDS teams a deeper understanding of the processes CDS systems are intended to improve. A \u201croof\u201d represents the CDS functions that become attainable after advancing along each of the pillars. Organizations are not required to advance in order and can develop in one pillar separately from another. However, we hypothesize that optimal deployment of preceding levels and advancing in tandem along the pillars increase the value of organizational investment in higher levels of CDS maturity. In addition to describing the maturity model and its development, we also provide three case studies of health care organizations using the model for self-assessment and determine next steps in CDS development.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0039-1697905","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,31]],"date-time":"2019-10-31T00:21:52Z","timestamp":1572481312000},"page":"810-819","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Towards a Maturity Model for Clinical Decision Support Operations"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Evan W.","family":"Orenstein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States"},{"name":"Division of Hospital Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States"}]},{"given":"Naveen","family":"Muthu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States"},{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States"}]},{"given":"Asli O.","family":"Weitkamp","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States"}]},{"given":"Daria F.","family":"Ferro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States"},{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States"}]},{"given":"Mike D.","family":"Zeidlhack","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Phrase Health Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States"}]},{"given":"Jason","family":"Slagle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States"}]},{"given":"Eric","family":"Shelov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States"},{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States"}]},{"given":"Marc C.","family":"Tobias","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Phrase Health Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,30]]},"container-title":["Applied Clinical Informatics"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.thieme-connect.de\/products\/ejournals\/pdf\/10.1055\/s-0039-1697905.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,31]],"date-time":"2019-10-31T00:21:52Z","timestamp":1572481312000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.thieme-connect.de\/DOI\/DOI?10.1055\/s-0039-1697905"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2019,10]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"05","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,16]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2019,10]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1055\/s-0039-1697905","relation":{},"ISSN":["1869-0327"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1869-0327","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2019,10]]}}}