Critical Access Hospital in rural western North Carolina purchases multiple PatientKeeper applications to automate physician workflow BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading ...

“CPOE systems have done a remarkable job in reducing the likelihood of medication errors, but mistakes are still seen with far too much frequency,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of Leapfrog.

Two years ago, at the dawn of the era of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, computerized physician order entry was a software application that had only achieved a six percent market ...

In July, the Leapfrog Group released a report on computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems that contained some discouraging findings. Over the course of a year and a half, the healthcare ...

MEMPHIS, TN – Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, a seven-hospital, multi-campus health system in Memphis, Tenn., recently completed a CPOE implementation after two years of taking a “hard-and-fast” tack ...

A few weeks ago I toured a hospital that had recently adopted computerized physician order entry (CPOE). We visited a patient room on the Med-Surge floor, where a nurse explained what happens in an ...

A study that has tracked computerized physician order entry adoption since 2003 shows that more hospitals are using the technology. Before the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of ...

Ashe Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital in rural Jefferson, N.C., is aiming to achieve ARRA-HITECH “Meaningful Use” standards in 2011 and the hospital selected PatientKeeper CPOE for this ...

Computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) systems decrease medication error, but they may not decrease patient harm due to medication error, according to the results of a study conducted at ...

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) has been shown to reduce preventable, potential adverse events. Despite this evidence, fewer than 5 percent of U.S. hospitals have fully implemented these ...

California's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is the first hospital nationwide to find evidence that a computerized physician order entry system can reduce medical errors and save lives, according ...

When Christus Health implemented CPOE as part of its EHR initiative, the hospital chain didn't require all doctors replace traditional paper orders with the new computerized system. However, it made ...