The document discusses how health care informatics and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems can improve patient care by decreasing medication errors and reducing health care costs. CPOE systems work to prevent errors from incorrect data entry, transcription errors, and clinical errors. They also aim to reduce reimbursement problems from billing errors. The role of informatics specialists is to support electronic medical records and network environments while maintaining professional ethics. CPOE systems allow physicians to correctly order medications, dosages, and check for contraindications, thereby preventing errors and improving patient care.

1. Health Care Informatics Presentation Learning Team A Jody Bush, Rolanda Canty, Daneshea Crews, Maria Schiaratura, and Julie Sykora University of Phoenix Health Care Informatics HCI 500 David Stibbards June 14, 2010

2. Introduction Health care informatics improves patient care Decreases medication errors Reduces health care costs Improved technology results in safer hospital care

3. Key Concepts Computerized Physician order Entry Improve hospitals standards Better protocols

4. CPOE Goals Prevent data errors Wrong order transcription Clinical errors that can result from inaccurate data Allergy not recorded Allergy recorded incorrectly Reimbursement problems due to data errors Denials Duplicates Delays

5. Informatics Specialist

6. Informatics Specialist Activities

7. Effect on the role of the informatics specialist Supports Electronic Medical Records Networking Environment Professional Ethics

8. Driving Forces

9. Restraining Forces

10. Implications Clinician Work Workflow Issues System Demands Paper Dependency Communication Emotions New Errors Changes Technology Dependence

11. Information technology and organizational structure

12. Conclusion CPOE assist physicians in ordering the correct medication, the right dose and to check for contraindications . Prevents transcription errors and reduces administration of wrong medication Decrease order duplicates Improves patient care

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