{"id":1371,"date":"2013-11-05T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:51:57","slug":"cope-with-cpoe-to-accomplish-the-meaningful-use-at-your-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/cope-with-cpoe-to-accomplish-the-meaningful-use-at-your-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cope with CPOE to Accomplish the \u2018Meaningful Use\u2019 at Your Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOnly those who regard healing<\/b> as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.\u201d – \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rudolf Virchow.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Right 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\u2019 suggestions and recommendations are deemed as \u201corders\u201d by the people.<\/p>\n

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

The Spotlight on CPOE <\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Computerized Physician Order Entry offers ample benefits to both patients and the providers. CPOE system,<\/p>\n

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  • \u00a0Eradicates errors due to docs\u2019 illegible handwritten prescriptions.<\/li>\n
  • \u00a0Alleviates adverse drugs events due to drug, dose or duration dilemmas.<\/li>\n
  • \u00a0Reduces duplicate testing.<\/li>\n
  • Offers rapid, flawless and easy data transfer.<\/li>\n
  • Enhances patient safety, data security and cuts physician and payer costs.<\/li>\n
  • Simplifies meaningful use<\/b> achievement through complete and accurate information, improved data access and patient empowerment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The Statistical Verity<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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    • \u00a0A publication in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association<\/strong>, underscores that – in a single year, e-prescribing through CPOE warded off 17.4 million medication errors in the U.S<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    • \u00a0Taking up the CPOE system mitigates probabilities of prescription errors by 48%<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    • \u00a0CPOE implementation resulted in 12.5% reduction in the medication errors<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    • \u00a0A 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.<\/li>\n
    • \u00a0Among the patient safety threats, 53% were related to medication management systems<\/strong>. Thus, a tailored CPOE system is essential for every practice.<\/li>\n
    • \u00a0In the hospital, CentraState Healthcare System in Freehold, N.J., 60 to 70 percent of the orders are channeled through the CPOE system<\/strong>, but it will be just 10% when emergency department (ED) orders<\/strong> are eliminated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      CPOE Espousal Still Remains Odd<\/b><\/h2>\n

      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Implementation of CPOE system in a healthcare setting, accompanies many impediments such as:<\/p>\n

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      • Cost<\/i><\/b><\/span> involved in the process implementation, infrastructure, employee training and go-live support.<\/li>\n
      • Benchmarking<\/i><\/b><\/span> the competence and performance of the CPOE system.<\/li>\n
      • Personnel acceptability<\/i><\/b><\/span> of the healthcare staffs \u2013 from hospital heads to the bottom-edge staffs.<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n
      • Benefit scrutiny<\/i><\/b><\/span> of the CPOE system with respect to the implementation and output metrics.<\/li>\n
      • Transformation<\/i><\/b><\/span> of the workflow pattern, work processes in the organization to fit CPOE adoption.<\/li>\n
      • Amalgamation<\/i><\/b><\/span> of the CPOE system to fit well with the meaningful use policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        BillingParadise \u2013 The Redeemer<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

        As a part of our \u201cGo-Digitalized Services<\/strong>\u201d to the healthcare providers, we have been upgrading numerous practices to the level of growing healthcare IT demands and changing federal policies.<\/p>\n

        Contact BillingParadise for the <\/b>Computerized Physician Order Entry –<\/b> consultation, implementation and expert support.<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        \u201cOnly those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.\u201d – \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rudolf Virchow. \u00a0Right 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-management"],"modified_by":"kiruthika","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450460,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/450460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}