The following article appeared in Modern Medicine a few days ago CPOE adoption, priority varies among surveys By: Joseph Conn Story posted: March 10, 2008 - 5:59 am EDT The quest for computerized physician order entry has been one of fits and starts—mostly fits—since 1972, when aerospace contractor Lockheed Corp. and El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., teamed up to develop what is generally regarded as the first CPOE system in America. Twenty-eight years later, the Business Roundtable launched the Leapfrog Group to address the patient-safety and quality-improvement challenges outlined in the seminal 1999 Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human. Leapfrog hoped to harness the buying power of its corporate members to pressure the healthcare industry to make improvements. It settled on pushing hospitals to install CPOE systems as one of its three initial "leaps," along with promoting the hiring of hospital-based intensivists and evidence-based referrals for certain...
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