Evaluation of medium-term consequences of implementing commercial computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support prescribing systems in two 'early adopter' hospitals.

CONCLUSIONS: We identified little difference in the medium-term consequences of a CPOE and a CDS system. It is important that future studies investigate the medium- and longer-term consequences of CPOE and CDS systems in a wider range of hospitals.
PMID: 24431334 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - January 15, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Cresswell KM, Bates DW, Williams R, Morrison Z, Slee A, Coleman J, Robertson A, Sheikh A Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research