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Computerized Medication Order Errors Studied

Researchers want to learn the cause of mistakes related to computerized physician order entry systems so they can help software makers prevent them.


By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
http://psnet.ahrq.gov/resource.aspx?resourceID=18098
abril 28, 2010 04:28 PM


While computerized physician order entry can help improve patient safety, these systems are also frequently implicated in medication errors. A new research study is looking to identify why these computerized ordering mistakes occur, and how they might be prevented.

The study is underway as the U.S. government prepares to reward healthcare providers that demonstrate "meaningful use" of health IT systems, such as CPOE, starting in 2011 under the $20 billion-plus HITECH legislation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The National Patient Safety Foundation recently awarded a nearly $100,000 grant to a research team from the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, located at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Quantros Patient Safety Center, a federally certified patient safety organization. The researchers are investigating nearly 200,000 reports of medication errors in which CPOE was listed as a contributing factor.

Those 200,000 CPOE-related medication errors are among the 1.5 million medication errors that 800 hospitals and health systems voluntarily reported over the last several years to Medmarx, an adverse drug reaction and medication error comparative data repository managed by software and services firm Quantros.

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