Analyzing the Impact of CPOE Systems in the Healthcare Environment

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) systems on the healthcare environment. It highlights the benefits of CPOE, such as improved efficiency, reduced errors, streamlined inventory management, and enhanced patient satisfaction through features like electronic medical records and appointment requests. The report also acknowledges the drawbacks, including potential employee laziness, system errors, and resistance to change among practitioners. The analysis emphasizes the positive overall impact of CPOE in modernizing healthcare operations, advocating for its use to increase business efficiency while acknowledging the need to address associated challenges. The report references various studies and research papers to support its findings, concluding that while CPOE systems offer significant advantages, careful implementation and management are crucial to mitigate potential negative consequences.

Impact of CPOE

Computerized Physician Order
Entry System
 CPOE refers to Computerized Physician Order Entry that is a
data entry system of recording the medical practitioner’s
instructions in the hospital setup. With the changing
environment, every industry is aiming to make use of
innovative technologies present in the environment so as to
upgrade the working process and eliminate the repetition of
work as well.
 The process of Computerized Physician Order Entry System
has become one most important part of the life of medical
practitioners in the environment (Ghani, Ikram, and Basari
2015).

Cont.
 This process has assisted people in completing their work on
time and efficiently as well. The CPOE system has helped
the medical practitioners in eliminating the errors in the
hospital environment.
 The inventory management and billing process also
becomes simplified with the use of this process. This activity
eliminate dual entry of same information in the environment
due to which the problem of error reduces in the
environment. The work also gets completed on time because
the information is directly shared to the concerned
department in the hospital (Shaanika 2018).

Cont.
 CPOE is a part of a patient management software that is
used to increase the efficiency of hospital activities so as to
increase the satisfaction of the patients in the environment.
 This software helps in increasing the satisfaction of the
clients in the environment. It stores the medical history of the
patient due to which they do not need to explain it to the
physician in their every visit.
 Also it gives an option them to request for appointment or
discharge (Afshan 2019).

Cont.
 CPOE is a computerized provider for order entry that electronically
accounts the instructions of the medical practitioners in the environment
for the treatment of the patients present under their care.
 The CPOE system helps the hospital to make use of new and effective
technology in the business to save cost and time.
 This system helps in keeping track of every activity and record of the
staff and patients due to which the human resource of the hospital gets
to focus on several other things.
 Thus, it should be noted that impact of this system has laid positive in the
healthcare environment. Before implementation of this system in the
environment, practitioners used hand written and verbal commination to
share details and order to staff for certain treatment and practices for the
patient (Khammarnia, et. al., 2017).

Cont.
 However, there are several drawbacks of using this system as well. As
this system makes the employees lazy and inefficient. The employees
start to believe that the software can do most of their work so they can
relax.
 Also system errors are one of the major reason causing dissatisfaction
among people. It can create chaotic conditions for the hospitals to
handle.
 Lastly, resistance to change on the end of practitioners is also an
impact of this process only. During the initial phase of implementation
of this system in the healthcare, many medical practitioners resisted to
implement such changes in the environment because of computerized
system that eliminated the work of manpower (Frisse, et. al., 2016).

Cont.
 Thus, it should be noted that impact of this system has laid
positive in the healthcare environment. Before implementation
of this system in the environment, practitioners used hand
written and verbal commination to share details and order to
staff for certain treatment and practices for the patient.
 It cannot be said that this system does not provide negative
impact to people and society in the environment. But it should
also be noted that the positive impacts of this system negative
ones. Thus, it should be noted that the organizations should
make use of this system to increase its business efficiency
(Boddy, McCalman, and Buchanan 2018).

Conclusion
 Thus, in the limelight of above mentioned events, the fact
should be noted that the paper highlighted details about the
impact of CPOE system. The computerized physician
operating entry helps the organization in backing up details
about the patients in a hospital and increasing the flow of
work in the environment. However, this process also bring
several complications in the environment as it bring system
glitches and inefficient activities of employees as well.

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