CPOE and clinical decision support in hospitals: getting the benefits: comment on Unintended effects of a computerized physician order entry nearly hard-stop alert to prevent a drug interaction'.

摘要

The United States will be investing almost Dollars 50 billion in incentives in health information technology (HIT), which will go mostly to hospitals and providers who adopt HIT, and a key area of emphasis will be CPOE in hospitals. To get these incentives, hospitals will need to demonstrate "meaningful use" of HIT. In deliberations on the meaningful use measures by the Health Information Policy Committee, the single most controversial area, based on the number of comments received, was CPOE in hospitals, in large part regarding how soon it should be required.