title: Medication order entry and clinical decision support: current nursing informatics issues.
abstract: The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has greatly increased the acceptance of electronic health record technology by providing incentives and punishment standards. A key criterion of the HITECH Act, meaningful use, has vendors clamoring to design clinical decision support (CDS) systems that fulfill this objective. Users should be aware that more emphasis may be placed on achieving the goals for compliance than on working out details that are clinically meaningful. Nurses can play a crucial rule in collaboratively supporting CDS initiative changes that make patient care more effective and efficient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Learning Resources, Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia, 315 Hospital Drive, Madison, TN 37115, USA. Electronic address: amy@mtsa.edu.
authors.forename: Amy C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Gideon
authors.affiliation: Health IT @VUMC, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 3401 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: DiPersio
mesh_terms: D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D048108:Nursing Informatics
keywords: Clinical decision support; Medication order entry systems; Patient safety; Technology