McKesson Corporation
Community Hospitals Compete to Demonstrate Benefits of CPOE
Published in MD Week, March 19th, 2010
At McKesson's third annual "Celebrating CPOE Success Award" competition, Peninsula Regional Medical Center, a 358-bed hospital in Salisbury, Md., earned top honors for reducing errors related to high-risk medications. Citing the use of technology to support its focus on patient safety, the medical center achieved an 85% overall adoption rate for McKesson's Horizon Expert Orders™ computerized physician order entry (CPOE) solution.
Peninsula Regional was one of multiple top-performing inpatient organizations to participate in the metric-based CPOE competition held in mid-February. Concord (New Hampshire) Hospital was named an award finalist for demonstrating...
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Source: MD Week (2010-03-19)
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