A National Web Conference on the First Consulting Group Inpatient and Ambulatory CPOE Assessment Tool
Event Date:
January 12, 2007 | 3:00pm – 4:30pm ET
Overall Purpose:
If you are involved in implementing and maintaining a CPOE system and are seeking guidance on how to determine how effective your system implementation is, don't miss this opportunity to learn about the First Consulting Group Inpatient and Ambulatory CPOE Assessment Tool.
In 2007, The Leapfrog Group is planning to release self-assessment tools for hospitals and physician practices/medical groups that evaluate the clinical decision support (CDS) in implemented clinical systems (CPOE in the hospital and EMR in the ambulatory setting). The purpose of the tools is to provide feedback to provider organizations about the extent to which the implemented application is taking advantage of CDS tools to improve medication safety and to provide public reporting of the status of use.
The assessment procedure involves setting up test patients, entering medication orders for those patients, and observing and documenting the presence and type of alerts or advice provided by the system. The standard established by The Leapfrog Group requires that the implemented system be able to detect and aid clinicians in averting at least 50 percent of the avoidable medication errors that would harm the patient. For the ambulatory EMR, the standard also requires that the system track and prompt physicians to comply with very basic health maintenance guidelines widely adopted in the industry. Public reporting will gauge current efforts against these standards.
You will hear from individuals behind the design of the CPOE assessment tool. The Inpatient and Ambulatory CPOE Assessment Tool may be used to evaluate the robustness with which the CDS system is being used.
Event Materials:
- Presentation Slides (PDF, 1 MB)
- Transcript (PDF, 103 KB)
- Recording of the Presentation