Electronic entry gap widens
Quick View. Aug. 22/29, 2005.
Overall electronic medication orders remain stable.
The gap between the 100 most-wired and the 100 least-wired hospitals and health systems in the country continued to grow in the past year.
The most-wired use more patient-safety information technology tools, including computerized physician order entry, electronic medication matching at the bedside and automated alerts and reminders, than do the least-wired, the survey found.
Forty-one percent of the most-wired hospitals have most of their physicians entering medication orders electronically compared with 8% at the least-wired hospitals -- the 100 survey respondents that posted the lowest scores. The survey was based on 502 responses from hospitals and health systems representing 1,255 hospitals.
This information and the accompanying full-text visual aids were drawn from the following source:
"2005 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study,"
Hospitals & Health Networks, July 12. [...]
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