Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) news from FierceHealthcare

The Leapfrog Group, a longtime advocate for computerized physician order entry, is calling on federal officials to require hospitals and IT vendors to test CPOE systems for safety after the advocacy Read more...

Three major health systems that have jointly developed more than 1,000 clinical order sets are joining with Zynx Health to market the order sets to other providers implementing computerized physician Read more...

Although previous research hasn't supported the link, a new study at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford found that computerized physician order entry (CPOE) cut mortality by a whopping 20 Read more...

Leapfrog Group has named 33 hospitals to this year's list of its top safety performers, a number that has shrunk from prior years as the ratings organization has gotten tougher. This year, 26 Read more...

Not sure your physicians will buy in to your EHR rollout? It's a reasonable fear. After all, they may not feel ready for the changes EHRs will require them to make. But a physician leader who's been there--and achieved 100 percent adoption of a CPOE system--suggests that if executives take the right steps, they can virtually guarantee that their EHR implementation will succeed. Column

A new survey of 1,500 community hospitals conducted by the American Hospital Association has found that, despite barriers such as cost and integration, implementation of health IT is on the rise in hospitals. Nearly half of all surveyed hospitals reported moderate or high use of health IT in 2006, compared to a response of 37 percent in 2005. Large, urban and teaching hospitals are at the forefront of this movement. In addition:

• 69 percent of responding hospitals have either …

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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center health system is rolling out a new CPOE system at one of its hospitals despite a study last year that found that found unexpectedly negative side effects of an earlier rollout at Children's Hospital. Dr. Eugene Wiener said, "I don't believe a single patient died because of this, and all of our data show that medication errors significantly decreased each year after implementing the system." Article

The Michigan-based Trinity Health System says it is temporarily stopping its $315 million electronic medical records implementation. The effort, dubbed "Project Genesis," will eventually upgrade IT services at 23 Trinity-operated hospitals. No word on exactly what is going on, but Trinity says the pause is so the system can study the project's impact on "clinical processes for disease conditions." Says PR guy Kevin DiCola, "we'll be so much better with our implementation by taking a step …

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> In a new report, market intelligence specialist IMS Health says U.S. prescription drug sales grew 5.4 percent to $251.8 billion in 2005. Since January, IMS reports 18 million prescriptions have been filled under Medicare Part D. Release

> Supporters of consumer-driven health plans are pointing at a recent internal study conducted by CIGNA that finds that patients who …

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A new study examines the way physicians use clinical decision support systems, looking at the factors which cause them to ignore system alarms and prompts. The research, which appears in BioMedCentral and Medical Informatics, concludes that most doctors welcome the technology, albeit with some reservations. About 80 percent, however, say they tend to ignore alarms when they are in a hurry.

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