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 ...

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 ...

Computerized provider order entry decreased the risk of medication errors by nearly half, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Researchers conducted a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, because of non-CPOE-related ...

There are opportunities for and obstacles to adding core biomedical informatics competencies to medical school curricula. Medical schools must teach core biomedical informatics competencies that ...