A new survey of health care CIOs shows adoption, "at some level," of computerized physician order entry systems is becoming widespread. But full implementation remains years away.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives in Ann Arbor, Mich., routinely surveys its CIO members. In the June survey with 335 respondents, 199 reported their organization has CPOE at some level of adoption. Only 8.5% believed they could reach what they consider to be full adoption in the next year. Another 26.6% of those surveyed said it will take two years, 34.5% estimated it will take three years, 17.1% said four years and 13.3% predicted a five-year effort.
Further, physician use of CPOE is low and could remain that way for some time, survey results suggest. Nearly 45% of responding organizations with CPOE in place report physicians enter 20% or less of their orders in the system.
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--Joseph Goedert
JUL 2, 2009 11:52am ET
Survey Shows CPOE Lay of the Land
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