Ten years ago, the Center for Information Technology Leadership at Partners HealthCare in Boston published a widely heralded report suggesting that nationwide adoption of ambulatory CPOE, tightly ...

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE), also known as computerized provider order entry or computerized practitioner order entry, refers to the process of a medical professional using a computer ...

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems are getting better, but still miss many dangerous or even fatal medication errors. That’s according to a Castlight Health analysis of data from the ...

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 ...

The use of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) has increased since the Institute of Medicine issued its 1999 report, "To Err is Human," which described the scope of medical errors in the United ...

Think EMR implementation is tough? Wait until you try computerized physician order entry--which just happens to be one of of the required measures of Stage 1 "meaningful use." "Given the importance of ...

When the employer-centric Leapfrog Group started way back in 2000, it pushed computerized physician order entry as a way to improve the quality of care. (The impetus likely was the landmark 1999 ...

The study by Holdsworth and colleagues compares the rates of adverse drug events (ADEs) for pediatric inpatients before and after implementation of computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) at a ...

Technologic advancements and error rates in radiation therapy (RT) delivery. Background: Few data exist on the impact of computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) on ...

In an effort to reduce the inappropriate use of medical imaging and improve quality of care, a large, tertiary-care hospital has successfully implemented a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) ...

In today’s healthcare climate, CPOE can no longer be a long-range strategy that healthcare organizations hope to achieve at a leisurely pace that fits in neatly with available resources and workflows.