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In daily medical practice, physicians routinely create plans of diagnosis and treatment for their patients. These plans typically contain specific, formal orders – directives – that are expected to be implemented by other medical professionals, such as nurses or personnel at laboratories or pharmacies. When such personnel are expected to implement part of a physician’s diagnosis or treatment plan, corresponding orders must be created and documented in the patient’s medical record. Physicians have traditionally used paper-based charting systems to record medical orders.
Computerized physician order entry(CPOE) is a process by which physicians directly enter medical orders into a computer. CPOE is typically done when the computer is being used to access an electronic health record (EHR), and the physician...
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Weiner, M. (2009). Computerized Physician Order Entry. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_75
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