Making Computerized Provider Order Entry Work
Philip Smith
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Description for Making Computerized Provider Order Entry Work
Paperback. This concise guide helps new and experienced health informatics teams successfully plan and implement CPOE. The book, in a narrative style, draws on the author's decade-long experiences of implementing CPOE at a variety of academic, pediatric and community hospitals across the United States. Series: Health Information Technology Standards. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBG; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 338.
Despite all the jokes about the poor quality of physician handwriting, physician adoption of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) in hospitals still lags behind other industries’ use of technology. As of the end of 2010, less than 22% of hospitals had deployed CPOE. Yet experts claim that this technology reduces over 80% of medication errors and could prevent an estimated 522,000 serious medication errors annually in the US. Even though the federal government has offered $20 billion dollars in incentives to hospitals and health systems through the 2009 stimulus (the ARRA HITECH section of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ... Read more
Despite all the jokes about the poor quality of physician handwriting, physician adoption of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) in hospitals still lags behind other industries’ use of technology. As of the end of 2010, less than 22% of hospitals had deployed CPOE. Yet experts claim that this technology reduces over 80% of medication errors and could prevent an estimated 522,000 serious medication errors annually in the US. Even though the federal government has offered $20 billion dollars in incentives to hospitals and health systems through the 2009 stimulus (the ARRA HITECH section of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Health Information Technology Standards
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447160045
SKU
V9781447160045
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99-15
About Philip Smith
Philip A. Smith, M.D. is a Board-certified Family Physician who first adopted technology in his private medical practice in November 1992 when he deployed an EMR in his office. In 1997, he left practice to pursue his interests in the field, co-founding a company, Cognitive Analysis, Inc. This company was probably the first in healthcare to utilize business process modeling ... Read more
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