Community-based practices are being incentivized with Medicare and Medicaid dollars to install EHR systems that include clinical decision support CDS technology. This represents a relatively new subject population in biomedical informatics that will be using clinical decision support tools. This research endeavored to understand from community-based physicians viewpoints what CDS means to them and what it can do to meet their needs. The purpose of the inquiry is to inform the design of CDS tools for these environments.