CPOE update
The Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), Medication Integration and Medication Reconciliation Teams are continuing to make enhancements to our information systems and processes. The teams have gathered feedback from numerous physician and provider groups, which has resulted in new designs and enhancements. Implementing these improvements will enable us to provide safer and higher-quality care for our patients.
On Wednesday, February 3, 2010, a new medication reconciliation tool and enhancements to medication history and CPOE applications will be launched throughout all campuses of EHC. In the near future, the new medication reconciliation tool will require all providers to complete the reconciliation process for all patients. In addition, a new depart process and tool will be used to ensure that we are preparing our patients for discharge in a standard and effective manner. All of these improvements will help EHC achieve advances in our quality outcomes, collection of information to meet core measurements and improvements in patient safety. For these reasons, hospital administration has approved the implementation of these improvements on an accelerated timeline.
Listed below are improvement highlights. For a complete list, you can visit the CPOE Web page located on the Clinical Resources page of the intranet. As always, your feedback is very important to us, so please send any comments, suggestions or concerns to physician.feedback@emoryhealthcare.org.
CPOE enhancements
- Ability to check for alerts when signing but not initiating orders
- "Sign" and "Initiate" buttons placed together
- Presentation of medication alerts on a summary screen with the ability to drill down into details
- Display of additional information in the patient's yellow banner bar
- Additional ways to update attending physician information
Medication reconciliation
- Improved functionality for admission, transfer and discharge medication reconciliation processes
- Ability to perform and save partial reconciliation until the next reconciliation
- Ability to add a medication history or prescription while performing discharge medication reconciliation
- Visual display of admission, transfer and discharge reconciliation status
- Better automated process for converting inpatient medications to prescriptions and prescriptions to inpatient medications
Medication history
- Ability to document existing home medication list as it is reviewed without entering any new information if it is already correct
- Ability to use "favorites" for documenting medications by history
- Ability to identify user who documented "Unable to Obtain" or "No Known Medications"
- Ability to mark history as incomplete
- Ability to use previous compliance information if it is correct
