What are the major benefits of implementing CPOE systems? What are the intended and Unintended effects of CPOE systems?
With the quick improvements of the EHR (Electronic Health Record), and the implementation of this system within hospitals all across the United States, other systems that hospital's at present have must be up to the mission of being able to incorporate with HER system in order to make available the excellence of care that patient should obtain. An order admission system or otherwise known as CPOE (computerized physician order entry) is defined as, a computer system that allows shortest entry of medical orders by the person with the licensure and rights to do so (Joan Ash, 2010).The order entry system in which many hospitals apply take on the task of delivering orders that have been entered by a physician, and are accomplished of distributing these orders to many different areas of a facility. This means that the doctor can go to one place for medication orders, orders for laboratory and imaging tests, with the added aptitude of being able to view test results, and medication lists for each patient. Once integrated to work with the EHR system an in effect CPOE system even though not able to stand on its own due to the lack of being able to also incorporates clinical documentation, is an dependable system in which helps to alleviate the long hindered problems of paper-based methods, thus reducing the number of adverse effects sustained by a patient from medication errors greatly due to the accuracy and completeness of the system (Bates, 2002).The ability to communicate via internetwork with other systems within a facility is one of the key components of a CPOE system. These systems are designed to interact with almost all other systems within the hospital network, being able to allow the physician to see all of the orders and the resulting test