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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A hospital-wide computerized system that allows physicians and nurses to order prescriptions and tests reduces the time it takes to get medications to patients and cuts resistance to one common ...

Although the concept of evidence-based order sets was introduced many years ago, healthcare providers are moving toward adopting evidence-based order sets in increasing numbers and integrating such ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospitals that process prescription orders through a computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system likely reduced their medication errors by 48% in 2008¬, according to a new meta-analysis. Given 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.