#3c Benefits and limitations of CPOE Benefits help reduce errors related to poor handwriting or transcription of medication orders.

rs. CPOE systems could save hospitals up to $2.7 million a year, compared to a cost of $2.1 million for implementation and $435,000 for annual maintenance. Multiple Access Points provide best-practice-based CPOE-centric drug identifiers representing all the logical ways to think about a drug to enable the manipulation of data to fit user requirements. simplifies the creation of new medication orders with the fewest possible steps with physician-friendly dosing guidance to ensure medication orders are patientspecific every time. The extensive capabilities of can also be used to dramatically reduce the time needed to build the order catalogue for CPOE. Pre-built pick lists facilitate medication ordering and improve user experience by helping reduce orders to a few keystrokes or as few as one or two clicks. enhance decisions by addressing considerations like PRN reasons, dose adjustments, relevant calculations, and discharge instructions.

Limitations Although CPOE systems are designed to mimic the workflow of the paper chart, their adoption has been slow, largely because of the disruption to existing care settings and the cost of implementation, which includes training. Physician to nurse communication can worsen if each group works alone at their workstations. Automation causes a false sense of security, a misconception that when technology suggests a course of action, errors are avoided. In other settings, shortcut or default selections can override non-standard medication regimens for elderly or underweight patients, resulting in toxic doses.. CPOE and automated drug dispensing was identified as a cause of error by 84% of over 500 health care facilities participating in a surveillance system by the United States Pharmacopoeia. Introducing CPOE to a complex medical environment requires ongoing changes in design to cope with unique patients and care settings, close supervision of overrides caused by automatic systems, and training, testing and re-training all users http://searchhealthit.techtarget.com/definition/computerized-physician-orderentry-CPOE http://www.cpoe.org/

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