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Defending CPOE; Advocates downplay study attributing errors to IT.

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 14-MAR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Defending CPOE; Advocates downplay study attributing errors to IT.(computerized physician order-entry)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Joseph Conn

Healthcare computerization proponents last week asserted that a new study of automation fails to prove that information technology is a major cause of medical errors rather than the solution to such mistakes.

The study's findings run counter to the conventional wisdom that automating healthcare processes will reduce medical errors. Researchers looked at the use of an early computerized physician order-entry system at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1997 to 2004 and discovered that the system facilitated 22 types of medication-error risks.

The Pennsylvania survey "does provide useful information about categorizing errors,'' said David Bates, medical director of clinical quality and analysis in information systems at Partners HealthCare System, Boston. "The important point is this study did not evaluate whether or not CPOE...

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