PORTLAND, Ore. – Clinical information technology systems – especially those known in the health care industry as computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems – promise to improve health outcomes, reduce medical errors and increase cost efficiency, but hospitals adopting them must plan for “immense” workflow issues and a host of other unanticipated consequences that come with them or face potentially crippling problems, concluded a study led by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association