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CPOE Summit Overview
CPOE is on everyone's radar screen and with over $10 billion estimated to be spent over the next few years, it
could be a watershed event in the history of health care. However, the questions, challenges and opportunities
that surround the CPOE movement are extraordinary, and the level of scrutiny on our industry from the business
community and the public at large is, and will continue to be, unyielding.
While we as an industry need to be responsive,
there is a danger in being merely reactive.
The “near term fix to the problem of the day” is an approach that has plagued Healthcare IT from its
inception. Therefore, it is absolutely critical that we ensure that the CPOE activities and investments we make
today will fit into a longer term model of transformation that is meaningful and driven from inside the industry,
not forced on us by outside forces.
The Vanderbilt Center for Better Health (VCBH) hosted the CPOE Summit
on June 6 and 7 in Nashville, Tennessee. Over 70 health care executives
from 40 organizations attended this event. In addition to educational
sessions by renowned CPOE experts, summit attendees participated
in break-out sessions and large group discussions around the role of CPOE
in the long term transformation of the healthcare industry.
Summit Objectives
The CPOE Summit provided participants with:
An understanding of the challenges and barriers associated with implementing
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE).
Practical tools and methods for implementing technology in clinical settings.
An opportunity to work with peers to identify ways to accelerate organization
and industry transformation toward better use of information technology to
improve care.
Summit Outcomes
Each organization needs to be sitting down and asking how
do we deal with the urgent problems. What is our strategy
for dealing with errors? What is our strategy for dealing with reduction
in practice variability? How are we going to achieve it and how
are we going to achieve it in a reasonable period of time? And, how
are we going to document that we are doing it?
If we've got a plan
for executing it and documenting it we will be able to defend ourselves
if we elect not to do something Leapfrog desires, and we will be
able to provide an alternative to Leapfrog because what they care
about is the objective, not the prescription. I encourage each of
us within our organizations to put together that very clear framework
of our overall process because that is what is going to create the
functioning system. And then, you can set CPOE within that functioning
system where it best fits. — Bill Stead
For Summit proceedings, please click here.
If you have any questions or feedback concerning the Summit,
please contact Elizabeth Calhoun
(615-322-7631).
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CPOE SUMMIT
June 6-7, 2002
Nashville, TN
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