Table 3.
Domain experts’ judgment on the absolute and relative importance of CIS services and capabilities for enabling a SOA for CDS.
| Absolute Importance* | Relative Importance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service or Capability | Mean | % 4 or 5 | % 5 | % Points Allocated |
| Event subscription and notification service | 4.5 | 91% | 61% | 7.6% |
| Cohort identification service | 4.0 | 77% | 32% | 4.4% |
| Entity identification service | 3.9 | 73% | 33% | 4.5% |
| Clinical data query service | 4.7 | 98% | 74% | 8.9% |
| Resource query service | 3.5 | 54% | 22% | 3.3% |
| Data acquisition service | 3.8 | 67% | 22% | 4.2% |
| Data addition/update service | 4.2 | 82% | 38% | 4.6% |
| Order placement service | 4.0 | 72% | 41% | 6.8% |
| User communication service | 4.4 | 89% | 60% | 7.2% |
| Task management service | 3.8 | 65% | 26% | 5.0% |
| Use of appropriate, standard information models and terminologies | 4.6 | 93% | 74% | 14.5% |
| Ability to leverage a DSS | 4.4 | 88% | 58% | 11.0% |
| Ability to leverage a terminology service | 4.2 | 83% | 46% | 4.9% |
| Ability to leverage a unit conversion service | 3.6 | 58% | 22% | 1.8% |
| Ability to leverage a data transformation service | 3.8 | 68% | 20% | 2.0% |
| Ability to leverage a data presentation service | 3.6 | 64% | 20% | 2.8% |
| Ability to populate a data warehouse in real-time | 3.4 | 48% | 11% | 1.8% |
| Maintenance of audit logs | 4.1 | 78% | 46% | 4.7% |
*
5 = very important; 4 = important. Bold = top five, both for % of respondents identifying as very important and % of points allocated.