CPOE adopters need long-term support for success

Modern Healthcare
January 29, 2009

Physician champions are critical to pulling off the installation of a computerized physician order-entry system, but they’re just as important to providing user support in the long years after going live, according to a joint report from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and the New England Healthcare Institute.

The hope, according to the collaborative and the institute, is that the 21-page report will serve “as a practical tool for use by CPOE project managers, CIOs, chief medical information officers and others responsible for the CPOE effort in their hospitals.”

 

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