The Leapfrog Group’s CPOE Standard and Evaluation Tool

Author:

Jane Metzger, Emily Welebob, Fran Turisco, Dr. David Classen

CSC’s Jane Metzger, Fran Turisco and Dr. David Classen contributed to this article on The Leapfrog Group’s CPOE Standard and Evaluation Tool procedure. The article is in the July/August 2008 issue of Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare.

Much of the increased focus on improving patient safety in healthcare, which started gaining momentum following the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, has centered on preventing medication-related adverse events (ADEs). In its call to action, the IOM targeted medication errors as one of the highest priority gaps in care and recognized the important role information technology such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE) could play in closing the gap. In the last 15 years, both the problem of medication errors and ADEs and implementing CPOE as part of the solution have received heightened attention, though progress with CPOE has been slow.

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