This document discusses computerized provider order entry (CPOE), a system where medical practitioners electronically enter patient treatment instructions. CPOE can significantly reduce medication errors in hospitals by 80% and serious errors by 55%. It ensures standardized, legible orders and integrates with other systems like electronic medical records and pharmacy systems. CPOE provides advantages over paper orders like preventing issues with handwriting and drug interactions. It allows healthcare providers to diagnose problems sooner, reduce errors, and provide safer, lower cost care.

1. A CURRENT HEALTH
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
By,
Shivani Rana
University of Maryland,
University College
June 16, 2016

2. Health Information Technology:
Computerized Provider (Physician) Order
Entry (CPOE)
 It is a process of electronic entry of medical
practitioner instructions for the treatment of patients
(particularly hospitalized patients) under his or her
care.
 A 2006 report by the Institute of Medicine estimated
that a hospitalized patient is exposed to a
medication error each day of his or her stay. CPOE
can reduce total medication error rates by 80%,
and adverse (serious with harm to patient) errors
by 55%.
 In addition to electronic prescribing, a
standardized bar code system for dispensing drugs
could prevent a quarter of drug errors.

3.  Computerized provider order entry (CPOE)
refers to any system in which clinicians
directly enter medication orders (and,
increasingly, tests and procedures) into a
computer system, which then transmits the
order directly to the pharmacy.
 CPOE systems are often used in tandem
with e-prescribing systems, which alert
physicians and clinicians to a particular
patient's drug allergies and current
medications.

4. Improved Quality of Health Care
through CPOE
 CPOE is the information technology tools by which
healthcare organizations can provide improved and
better healthcare services than traditional one.
 A CPOE system, at a minimum, ensures
standardized, legible, and complete orders and thus
has the potential to greatly reduce errors at the
ordering and transcribing stages.
 With the help of CPOE, health care providers will
have accurate and complete information about a
patient's health and they can transport medication
orders precisely to the pharmacy. That way, providers
can give the best possible care.

5. CPOE: Advantages
 CPOE offers numerous advantages over
traditional paper-based order-writing systems.
These merits include averting problems with
handwriting, similar drug names, drug
interactions, and specification errors; integration
with electronic medical records, decision support
systems, and adverse drug event reporting
systems; faster transmission to the pharmacy;
and potential economic savings.
 With the help of CPOE, health care providers
will have to help diagnose health problems
sooner, reduce medical errors, and provide safer
care at lower costs.

6. Increased Access due to
CPOE
 Establishes missing communication channel
between pharmacy and hospital for better patient
care.
 CPOE systems can paired with Clinical Decision
Support System(CDSS), which suggests values for
drug doses and offer more sophisticates drug
safety features like drug-drug interactions,
checking for medicine allergies etc.
 CPOE can integrate with Electronic Health
Records(EHRs) , which easily can analyzed
patients’ medical history.

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