Search Tag: error in order entry

IT Management

Patient-photo-in-ehr-impact-on-errors

2020 17 Nov

Displaying patient photos in the electronic health record (EHR) banner not only enhances a physician's ability to correctly identify patients. Importantly, this may also be a simple and inexpensive way to avoid wrong-patient order entry (WPOE) errors, says a new study (Salmasian et al. 2020)   You might also like: Get Data on Board: Incorporating...Read more

Executive Health Management

New-study-will-evaluate-order-entry-errors

2014 29 Sep

A team of patient safety experts at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine is embarking on a study to see if there are ways in which patient safety can be improved and risks minimised through the reduction of computer provider order entry (CPOE) errors. Entering orders into the wrong patient’s computer record can result...Read more