In 2013, 43 percent of hospitals responding to the 2013 Leapfrog Hospital Survey met Leapfrog's standard for computerized physician order entry, an all-time high.
In 2012, 31 percent of hospitals responding to the Leapfrog Hospital Survey met the standards.
Leapfrog's standard for CPOE requires that at least 75 percent of medication orders across all inpatient units are ordered through a CPOE system and that the hospital has tested the system to make sure physicians are alerted to common and serious medication errors.
According to the survey, the number of potentially fatal orders that did not receive an appropriate warning fell from 14.2 percent in 2012 to 12.5 percent in 2013 when using the Leapfrog CPOE Evaluation Tool.
However, 36 percent of tested CPOE orders did not alert physicians of an order that may have led to an adverse patient event, and 12.5 percent of tested orders that could have resulted in death did not prompt a response from the CPOE system, according to the report.
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