Alamance Regional Medical Center improves patient safety with CPOE.

Full Abstract

While it is widely written that advanced clinical information systems can help healthcare organizations reduce adverse medical events and increase patient safety, Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) has proven that it truly does. ARMC chose Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager for its ability to provide knowledge-based clinical decision support and its alert capabilities at the time of order entry. Since its organization-wide rollout in summer 2000, ARMC has been using the computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with widespread success and has transformed the care delivery process.

Author information

Author/s: DiFrancesco, Marie (M); Andrews, Terri (T);

Affiliation: Alamance Regional Medical Center, Burlington, NC, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of healthcare information management : JHIM (J Healthc Inf Manag), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2004-; vol 18 (issue 1) : pp 18-23

Dates: Created 2004/02/19; Completed 2004/04/13; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 14971075, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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