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—so that physicians will be encouraged to accept this new technology.

That means your CPOE solution has 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. (Currently available for the US only.)

OrderView introduces the concept of the "Orderable Med." This concept refers to drug content that specifically supports CPOE applications. It 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 mouse clicks.

This concept further reduces user scrolling, by quickly loading a short list of appropriate orders for the clinician's consideration. Since the 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

Note that 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 them directly to a completed order—say "warfarin 7mg po qday"—in just one hop. And the clinician would never have to specify, "Make up that 7mg order using a 5mg tablet and a 2mg tablet." That's one example of how entering less order detail is more "physician friendly."

Simplifying Everyday Med Ordering Tasks

By simplifying med ordering, OrderView can increase your organization's efficiency. It can save time, for example, by using medication orders pre-built by our team of clinical experts—including those that can be more arduous to create in the written world. Meds that can be given by more than one route (e.g., acetaminophen P/PR) in OrderView can lead immediately to two complete order sentences—faster than handwriting. For patients with renal or hepatic impairment, the order can offer the clinician 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. If these everyday tasks are done efficiently—and with OrderView we're making them as simple as possible—CPOE can actually make life easier for today's clinicians.

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