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==Abstract==
 
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We know that in 2004, President Bush tasked our nation with a 10 year mandate to embrace electronic medical records and established and funded the Office of the National Coordinator ONC. Our current President has continued his support and commitment through the HITECH act, by establishing an EHR incentive program through which individual hospitals and physicians can receive incentive payments for achieving “meaningful use” of certified EHR technology and computerized order entry (CPOE) system is a key component of this initiative.
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We all know that paper based orders are prevalent with clinicians even today (physicians handing prescriptions or a lab report checking off specific test groups like lipid panel, metabolic panel, A1C etc. to the patient during a visit is a great example), despite the fact that it is error prone and makes interoperability, another key component of Meaningful Use, ineffective. When clinicians use computers to directly input diagnostic testing or medicine orders for further processing, it is referred to as computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system.
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Our focus for this review is confined to laboratory CPOE and its many benefits such as cycle time reduction, accuracy, error correction at source, better standards adherence and also barriers to its implementation.
  
 
==Background==
 
==Background==

Revision as of 21:40, 24 March 2015

Abstract

We know that in 2004, President Bush tasked our nation with a 10 year mandate to embrace electronic medical records and established and funded the Office of the National Coordinator ONC. Our current President has continued his support and commitment through the HITECH act, by establishing an EHR incentive program through which individual hospitals and physicians can receive incentive payments for achieving “meaningful use” of certified EHR technology and computerized order entry (CPOE) system is a key component of this initiative. We all know that paper based orders are prevalent with clinicians even today (physicians handing prescriptions or a lab report checking off specific test groups like lipid panel, metabolic panel, A1C etc. to the patient during a visit is a great example), despite the fact that it is error prone and makes interoperability, another key component of Meaningful Use, ineffective. When clinicians use computers to directly input diagnostic testing or medicine orders for further processing, it is referred to as computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system. Our focus for this review is confined to laboratory CPOE and its many benefits such as cycle time reduction, accuracy, error correction at source, better standards adherence and also barriers to its implementation.

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