Making the Med Ordering Process Easier for the Clinician
If your organization is preparing for CPOE today, you need to consider the importance of choosing
drug content that's specifically formulated to streamline clinician workflow—rather than complicating it—to encourage physician adoption. Your CPOE solution needs to make the overall med ordering process easier for the clinician than manual medication ordering.
Introducing the First Physician-Friendly CPOE Drug Database
First DataBank has addressed these usability issues by creating a CPOE-ready drug database, the OrderView Med Knowledge Base. To streamline the integration of OrderView within your healthcare application quickly and economically, OrderView Framework application programming interface (API) software is also available in either .Net or JAVA formats. (Currently available for the US only.)
OrderView introduces the concept of the "Orderable Med" — drug content that enables clinicians to use drug descriptions as "stepping stones" or search targets for completing med orders in the fewest possible steps—in many instances,
just two clicks. OrderView further reduces user scrolling, by quickly loading a short list of appropriate orders for the clinician's consideration. Since med orders are generated based on patient parameters—such as age, weight, renal and hepatic impairment, etc.—the list is reduced to a minimum, thus reducing user scrolling even further.
Order-Centric Medication Orders vs. Product-Centric Drug Dispensing
Orderable Meds are constructed explicitly for ordering—not for dispensing, administering, researching or billing medications. So, for instance, clinicians entering "warfarin oral" would invoke the "stepping stone" that leads directly to a completed order— "warfarin 7mg po qday"—in just one step. And, the clinician would never have to specify: "Make up that 7mg order using a 5mg tablet and a 2mg tablet."
Simplifying Everyday Med Ordering Tasks
By simplifying med ordering, OrderView can increase your organization's efficiency. It can save time by using medication orders pre-built by our team of clinical experts—including those that can be more time-consuming to create in the written world. Meds that can be given by more than one route (e.g., acetaminophen PO/PR) in OrderView can lead immediately to two complete order sentences—faster than handwriting. For patients with renal or hepatic impairment, the order provides dosing adjustments and reference monographs. Converting med orders from IV to PO can save time and enhance convenience by eliminating arduous rounds of discontinuing orders and rewriting them with new routes and doses. The same applies to conveniently converting orders for discharge meds.
With OrderView, clinicians have fast access to a database that’s intuitive and easy to use. Suddenly, medication ordering isn’t frustrating at all.
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