• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  

  The report "Making Health Care Safer" contains multiple chapters, including Chapter 6: Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) with Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs)

• The Leapfrog Group
  

  Comprised of more than 100 public and private organizations that provide health care benefits, The Leapfrog Group works with medical experts throughout the United States to identify problems and propose solutions that it believes will improve hospital systems that could break down and harm patients. Their reports on CPOE are found here.

• First Consulting Group
  

  This consulting firm works in the healthcare industry, and has written a number of reports on CPOE, such as "Computerized Physician Order Entry: Costs, Benefits and Challenges – A Case Study Approach." [This links to a file in PDF format - if you need to obtain the free Adobe Acrobat software to read PDF documents, click here.]

• California Healthcare Foundation
  

  CHF is sponsoring The Quality Initiative, which includes a fact sheet on CPOE. [This links to a file in PDF format - if you need to obtain the free Adobe Acrobat software to read PDF documents, click here.]

• The American Hospital Association
  

  AHA released a 50 page report on CPOE as part of their Quality and Patient Safety Key Initiative. Click here for an executive summary. The complete report may be ordered from the AHA.

• The Informatics Review
  

  This is an on-line serial devoted to helping clinicians and information systems professionals keep up with the latest developments in the rapidly changing field of Clinical Informatics.

Last Modified: October 23, 2007