The Future CPOE Workflow: Augmenting Clinical Decision Support WithPharmacist Expertise

摘要

The advent of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) brought substantial changes to themedication order processing workflow. Much of the justification for these changes includedimprovements in medication safety. CPOE for medications has reduced errors contributing toimprovements in patient safety. The benefits of CPOE include areduction in prescribing and transcription errors and the ability to manage medication-relatedproblems in real time through alerts to the user. Benefits to patient care have been noted with many alert types including the following:drug-allergy, drug-drug interaction, drug-dose, drug-duplication, and formulary compliance alerts.