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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...