Practicing medicine today is more complex than ever. The menu of diagnostics, medications and treatments available to providers is continually expanding. Standards of care are shifting as guidelines grow and multiply. There are more options and more decisions for everyone–from practitioners to laboratory technicians to IT staff. Electronic health records (EHRs), originally intended to organize options and lighten information overload for both patient and provider, have developed into sophisticated multi-featured tools, supported by entire departments and strongly impacting—if not actually driving—clinician workflows. At the intersection of the EHR and provider choice lies clinical decision support (CDS). The benefits of clinical decision support are particularly important for c

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