Cope with CPOE to Accomplish the ‘Meaningful Use’ at Your Practice

“Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.” –            Rudolf Virchow.

 Right from the ancient times, physicians have been eager to tussle with demise, wound, and illness – the episodes which sadden any common person. This is the very reason for the physicians being considered as the high authority, sacrosanct professionals in any society. Thus, physicians’ suggestions and recommendations are deemed as “orders” by the people.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reckon that adoption of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) is an important pace in the achievement of meaningful use.

The Spotlight on CPOE

Computerized Physician Order Entry offers ample benefits to both patients and the providers. CPOE system,

•  Eradicates errors due to docs’ illegible handwritten prescriptions.
•  Alleviates adverse drugs events due to drug, dose or duration dilemmas.
•  Reduces duplicate testing.
• Offers rapid, flawless and easy data transfer.
• Enhances patient safety, data security and cuts physician and payer costs.
• Simplifies meaningful use achievement through complete and accurate information, improved data access and patient empowerment.

The Statistical Verity

•  A publication in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, underscores that – in a single year, e-prescribing through CPOE warded off 17.4 million medication errors in the U.S.
•  Taking up the CPOE system mitigates probabilities of prescription errors by 48%.
•  CPOE implementation resulted in 12.5% reduction in the medication errors.
•  A recent study on health IT-related safety events by the ECRI Institute – Patient Safety Organization revealed that data transmittance between healthcare IT systems can pose challenges to patient safety.
•  Among the patient safety threats, 53% were related to medication management systems. Thus, a tailored CPOE system is essential for every practice.
•  In the hospital, CentraState Healthcare System in Freehold, N.J., 60 to 70 percent of the orders are channeled through the CPOE system, but it will be just 10% when emergency department (ED) orders are eliminated.

CPOE Espousal Still Remains Odd

            Implementation of CPOE system in a healthcare setting, accompanies many impediments such as:

• Cost involved in the process implementation, infrastructure, employee training and go-live support.
• Benchmarking the competence and performance of the CPOE system.
• Personnel acceptability of the healthcare staffs – from hospital heads to the bottom-edge staffs.
• Benefit scrutiny of the CPOE system with respect to the implementation and output metrics.
• Transformation of the workflow pattern, work processes in the organization to fit CPOE adoption.
• Amalgamation of the CPOE system to fit well with the meaningful use policy.

BillingParadise – The Redeemer

As a part of our “Go-Digitalized Services” to the healthcare providers, we have been upgrading numerous practices to the level of growing healthcare IT demands and changing federal policies.

Contact BillingParadise for the Computerized Physician Order Entry – consultation, implementation and expert support.