Telemedicine Magazine – “Telepharmacy Takes CPOE To the Next Level”
December 08, 2016
While CPOE has been shown to reduce medication errors, a recent report by Castlight Health and the hospital rating organization Leapfrog Group, showed that CPOE systems failed to flag 13% of potentially fatal medication errors. In this increasing digital healthcare eco-system, some hospitals have chosen to implement telepharmacy in conjunction with their CPOE system, to ensure that a clinical pharmacist is always verifying any medication orders as soon as they are prescribed.