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 ...

4. Approximately 64 percent of the hospitals fully met Leapfrog’s CPOE standard, meaning the system alerts physicians to at least half of the most common, serious prescribing errors, and at least 75 ...

In July, the Leapfrog Group released a report on computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems that contained some discouraging findings. Over the course of a year and a half, the healthcare ...

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 ...

Another study examined house staff interactions with a CPOE system at a tertiary-care teaching hospital to identify and quantify the role of CPOE in facilitating ...

Bob Sarnecki, CIO at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the nation, figures the second time rolling out CPOE will be a charm. Well, not so much “a charm,” as ...

Researchers, doctors, patient advocates and public health officials alike have long been trying to find ways to improve patient safety. And recent research has suggested that seemingly simple measures ...