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 ...

Once considered the leading edge of information technology, computerized physician order entry is now simmering on the back burner of healthcare priorities. While it is not forgotten, attention toward ...

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 ...

Some time ago, I toured one of the nation's top hospitals—a Leapfrog Group survey participant—and had a chance to talk with staff about computerized physician order entry. When it comes to health ...

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 ...

"CPOE systems have done a remarkable job in reducing the likelihood of medication errors, but mistakes are still seen with far too much frequency," said Leah Binder, president and CEO of Leapfrog.

HIMSS has launched a new CPOE wiki that would streamline the search for CPOE information and insight, data, documents and valuable guidelines for meeting meaningful use, according to a HIMSS news ...

Like anyone else, if physicians are given the chance to record things in their own words, the way they do it will vary widely. Unfortunately, when they do this within a computerized physician order ...

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eclipsys Corporation(R), the Outcomes Company(R) (Nasdaq:ECLP), today announced that more hospitals and physicians use Eclipsys computerized physician order entry ...

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 ...