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) 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 ...

Computerized physician order entry is a key requirement of meaningful use stage 1. Now that CPOE has reached a tipping point, healthcare IT leaders are at the beginning of a journey that takes the ...

Hospitals are continuing to implement computerized provider order entry systems to not only meet meaningful use requirements, but to also increase the use of evidence-based practices and improve ...

In the 1990s, big bang rollouts of electronic health systems were all the rage. But have you ever heard the phrase "only fools rush in?" Many organizations learned that while that approach got ...

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.

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

Hospitals are rethinking how computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems fit into daily care to reduce clinician burden and improve patient safety. By studying workflow inefficiencies, 'order ...

With the Joint Commission and CMS emphasizing the value of computerized physician order entry (CPOE), health IT managers and CIOs have started to plan rollouts. The thing is, they're likely to get ...