CPOE
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), pronounced as /siː poʊ iː/, is a process of electronic entry of medical practitioner instructions for the treatment of patients under their care. These orders are communicated over a computer network to the medical staff or to the departments (pharmacy, laboratory, or radiology) responsible for fulfilling the order. CPOE decreases delay in order completion, reduces errors related to handwriting or transcription, allows order entry at the point of care or off-site, provides error-checking for duplicate or incorrect doses or tests, and simplifies inventory and posting of charges.
Etymology
The term "Computerized Physician Order Entry" is derived from its function. It is a computerized system that allows direct entry of medical orders by the person with privileges that ordered the interventions.
Related Terms
- Electronic Health Record (EHR): An electronic version of a patient's medical history, that is maintained by the provider over time, and may include all of the key administrative clinical data relevant to that persons care under a particular provider.
- Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS): A health information technology system that is designed to provide physicians and other health professionals with clinical decision support (CDS), that is, assistance with clinical decision-making tasks.
- Health Information Technology (HIT): The application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision making.
- Medical Transcription: The process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on CPOE
- Wikipedia's article - CPOE
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