Health Care IT: The Right Dose of Technology Helps the Medicine Go Down
CPOE experts hope such new tools will be able to test the effectiveness of the drug-ordering systems and help hospitals make them as foolproof as possible.
"Saying that ’CPOE causes medication errors’ is like saying that ’cars cause accidents,’" Bates writes. "Of course CPOE can cause medication errors. Clearly we should strive to make it work better. Accident rates were high with cars early after their introduction, but few today want to go back to the horse and buggy."



