A few weeks ago I toured a hospital that had recently adopted computerized physician order entry (CPOE). We visited a patient room on the Med-Surge floor, where a nurse explained what happens in an ...

The article by Palen et al in this issue of theis an important contribution to the literatureon healthcare information technology(IT). 1 First, it is one of the few studies of a decision supportsystem ...

Development of a Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Deficit-Accumulation Frailty Index and Its Application to Older Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma In 2012, under the direction of the ...

During 9 months of configuration effort, 30 medical logic modules and 110 order sets were developed to support pediatric oncology. The proportion of chemotherapy orders submitted using specific ...

In its landmark reports on quality of medical care, [1,2] the Institute of Medicine brought attention to the frequency of errors in medicine, and offered several clear suggestions for how we might ...

Computerized provider order entry systems in the emergency department can reduce medication errors, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine. Researchers conducted a literature review of ...

The guiding principle of CPOE systems is that they allow physician orders to be easily tracked and hence ensure improved patient care. However, a series of recent articles and insight from users of ...

Objectives: To estimate the current uses level of ambulatorycomputerized physician order entry (A-CPOE) among physiciansand to examine the relationship of managed care penetration aswell as other ...

Researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine are saying a new study shows – for the first time – that using a computerized physician order entry system ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Systems - Global Strategic Business Report" report to their offering. The ...

Here are five things to know about the computerized physician order entry market, according to a MicroMarket Monitor news release. 1. The global CPOE market is expected to be valued at $1.288 billion ...