This appeared a few days ago. Concord Hospital sees positive CPOE outcomes By: Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer Story posted: March 26, 2008 - 5:59 am EDT Joel Berman is in an enviable position for a chief medical information officer. Six months into a slow-roll implementation of a computerized physician order entry system at 220-bed Concord (N.H.) Hospital, Berman has had not one medical staff delegation show up at his door with flaming torches. In the CPOE business, that is not damnation with faint praise. On the contrary, a recently completed survey of medical staff physicians gives Berman cause for optimism, and in one case, surprise. "We had implemented CPOE in September 2007, and six months later we wanted to find out our providers' point of view," Berman said. "What was working well? What did they like? What did they want different?" So far, about 80 of the 300 or so physicians with privileges at Concord are using McKesson Corp.'s Horizon Expert Orders CPOE system,...
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