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Participation in a registry is likely to increase what we know about a specific condition, help health care professionals improve treatment, and allow researchers to design better studies on a particular condition, including development and testing of new treatments.
We have commented on laboratory integration, on interfacing with regional immunization registries, on the role of billing systems, on the state of hospital readiness, and on electronic prescribing. Another of the 25 criteria defined by Meaningful Use is about Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE). The Meaningful Use measure is that for Eligible Providers (EPs), CPOE is used for at least 80% of all orders. What does this mean, exactly? And how does it relate to an ambulatory setting? In a hospital setting, Order Entry is pretty well understood by physicians â it is central to the in-hospital workflow.