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CPOE Paper
Damien Johnson
HCIS/255C
February 2, 2014 Kristi Berry

2. CPOE stands for Computerized Physician Order Entry and is viewed as a key feature of an electronic health record that improves quality of care, clinician efficiency, and patient safety. CPOE systems can improve workflow processes in many different ways. There are many benefits to having a computerized physician order entry system. Workflow processes are improved because of the CPOE by the monitoring of duplicate orders, the generating of related orders, the prevention of lost orders, the elimination of errors due to illegible handwriting, the reduction of time spent filling the orders, the reduction of medication errors, and the improvement of clinician productivity.
Computerized results improve the workflow process because they reduce lag time, which leaves more time for the clinician to recognize and treat the patient’s medical problems. Another improvement due to computerized results is they are more easily accessible than paper reports at the time and place they are needed. These improvements are to the benefit of the patient. Computerized Provider Order Entry can protect the patient by the reduction of medication errors of dose, drug allergies, and drug to drug interactions. With the CPOE system if there are any allergies or interactions detected, an alert comes up to the pharmacist. The pharmacist then contacts the clinician and fixes the problem before anything bad could happen to the patient. These alerts could actually be saving a person’s life. Computerized Provider Order Entry has many benefits; one benefit being the improvement of documentation received by ancillary departments. The improvement reduces the chance of misinterpretation of an order. CPOE reduces the time spent for ancillary department personnel to complete the order by reducing the need for re-entry of data into the ancillary department system. Another benefit is less medication errors.
CPOE has alerts that catch the drug to drug interactions and allergies that a patient may have. The biggest benefit that I see is to the patient. With the efficiency of the CPOE, the clinician has more time to spend with the patient on the diagnosis and treatment
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plan. By the clinician not having to spend so much time on written exam notes, they now have time to go over the treatment plan with the patient and even offer them printed notes on the steps of the treatment plan. The implementation of CPOE is costly and timely. Once a facility gets past the cost and time implementations, they will see the benefits to them and their patient’s. With the quality of care and improved safety, they will note how beneficial the implementation of time and cost was to them. In conclusion, CPOE will improve a facility’s quality of care and safety standards; which makes the patient happier with their visits and treatment plans. The clinicians will appreciate the ease of the system and the personnel will have more time to implement more important matters than the handwritten paperwork. Technology in the healthcare field continues to grow year by year, making quality of care improve.

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References

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