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 ...

A study conducted by University of Pennsylvania researchers assessed the effectiveness of using a computerized physician order entry system to reduce orders for anticoagulant medication warfarin in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health-care policymakers and administrators have championed specialty-designed software systems – including the highly-touted Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) systems – as the cornerstone of ...

A 16-month observational review was conducted at UNC Hospitals, a 688-bed academic hospital. CPOE was implemented at UNC Hospitals in an incremental fashion. The Siemens Medical Solutions CPOE system ...

A new study suggests that computerized order entry systems which are implemented in part to reduce prescribing errors can actually increase the risk of medication errors in certain situations, ...

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 ...