Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE): Benefits and Concerns - A Status Report

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Author(s): Alberto Coustasse (Graduate School of Management, College of Business, Marshall University, USA), Joseph Shaffer (Graduate School of Management, College of Business, Marshall University, USA), David Conley (Graduate School of Management, College of Business, Marshall University, USA), Julia Coliflower (Graduate School of Management, College of Business, Marshall University, USA), Stacie Deslich (Graduate School of Management, College of Business, Marshall University, USA)and Andrew Sikula Sr. (Graduate School of Management, College of Business, Marshall University, USA)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 17
Source title: Healthcare Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6339-8.ch036

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Healthcare Administration / Medicine & Healthcare

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In an effort to reduce Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) and to improve patient safety, funding has been earmarked to improve the rate of adoption of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) among healthcare providers. It has been shown that the ordering stage of medications is where most medication errors and preventable ADEs occur. The purpose of this study was to examine the implementation CPOE systems in hospitals to determine benefits and concerns of this technology in the United States healthcare system. A review of the literature published in the last 13 years (since 2000) in the English language was performed to complete this investigation. CPOE has emerged as a valuable tool to improve medical efficiency and to decrease medication errors and ADEs. Efficiencies were found to reduce the overall workload of nurses, clerical workers and pharmacists. CPOE has proven to be a secure way of transferring physician orders electronically thus helping hospitals and physicians practice a more effective and better quality of care with less medical errors which has led to decreased operating expenses. While barriers such as lack of professional buy in, and cost of implementation have hindered the widespread use and growth of CPOE systems, these barriers are being overcome with the financial incentives from the HITECH Act, and with the increased savings of CPOE implementation, which may motivate more healthcare systems to adopt CPOE.

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