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 ...

Providing physicians with a computerized order entry/decision support system that provides immediate feedback regarding imaging appropriateness at the time of ordering may be an effective solution to ...

Clinical information technology systems -- especially those known in the health-care industry as computerized provider order entry systems -- promise to improve health outcomes, reduce medical errors ...

Objective: Understanding provider perceptions of and experiences with order entry and order checks (drug alerts) in an electronic prescribing system may help improve medication safety technology.

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 number of medication errors reported per discharge in the two affected units was significantly higher after than before implementation of the CPOE system. However ...

Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems can introduce unintended patient harms and it will take more than better design to eliminate them, according to Robert L. Wears, a professor in the ...

Computerized provider order entry decreased the risk of medication errors by nearly half, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Researchers conducted a ...

To make sure patients are safe, hospitals have to put their CPOE systems to the test, warned healthcare industry watchdog The Leapfrog Group in a report released in July. Leapfrog, one of the ...

CMS expects doctors to place electronic orders using a computerized provider order entry, or CPOE. Such orders are automatically downloaded into an EHR, providing authentication, date and time.