Clinical Provider Order Entry and Clinical Decision Support Systems

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T6DQ1: Informatics
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In what ways can informatics help health care providers overcome current or emerging barriers to care and increase access to safe, quality health care? Include a discussion of the value and challenges of clinical provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support systems (CDSS) in providing safe patient care in your response. Why are heuristic principles (human factors/usability/user centered design) important for efficient clinical information systems such as CPOE and CDSS?
There is an increased focus on accurate diagnostics based on accurate patient medical history and records, and informatics helps achieve this. In the future, other medical practitioners, providers, and governments rely on medical information to inform decisions and procedures. Informatics helps promote individualized health care provision while preventing harmful treatment options and errors (Prgomet et al., 2017). There is a lower risk of misdiagnosis when using informatics, especially when there is standardization of diagnostic information. Informatics also helps streamline the health care practices when there is consistent access to the data.
Informatics helps to improve clinical documentation where there is access to timely patient information. For instance, clinical decision support tools in the clinical provider order entry (CPOE) include online medication administ...