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Project Update |
November 2007 |
Massachusetts Hospital CPOE Initiative Establishes Educational Task Force Roundtables: Past and Future September 19, 2007 Workshop: Addressing the Challenges of Implementing CPOE Systems (Link to the meeting notes.) October 23, 2007 Workshop: Stuck in Pilot Mode? Not there yet? Anticipating the Potential Pit falls to a Successful CPOE Rollout. (Link to the meeting notes.) In the future, a variety of educational programs are planned, ranging from small to medium size roundtable discussions to larger educational workshops and conferences. The topics are structured to address a broad array of subjects in a setting that allows for a free exchange of ideas on practices that are working. Hospital teams are encouraged to take advantage of these free collaborative learning opportunities. All Massachusetts hospitals are notified electronically about upcoming programs. If there is a topic of interest for future programs that you would like the education task force to consider, send your ideas to gilboard@masstech.org. New Best Practice Report on Post Implementation Released Soon
The report includes a combination of onsite and telephone interviews with community hospitals that have a large number of physicians using CPOE. The report is due out in November and will be distributed to all Massachusetts hospitals and available on our website at masstech.org. If you have any questions, please contact: |
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The CPOE Education Task Force is comprised of hospital CIOs, physicians and CPOE project leaders who will advise the Initiative about educational programming. The group met on August 21, 2007 to discuss the “hot topics” for hospitals and physicians embarking upon CPOE. Recognizing that all hospitals are in different stages of their CPOE implementation, the Massachusetts Hospital CPOE Initiative is taking the lead in identifying some of the most important and critical topics that hospitals need to know if they are going to be successful with their CPOE adoption. Many organizations are not in a position to allocate additional resources beyond what the vendors provide. What better way to reach out to hospitals than through the creation of peer learning environments that encourage collaboration. Through a combination of reports on best practices, testimony from field experts, and educational workshops, the Initiative is committed to support the needs of all hospitals implementing this technology. The names of the Education Task Force members can be found 
Wellesley Hospital were the featured panelists for this engaging and robust discussion addressing how to best Roll Out CPOE in a hospital. Our panelists were responsible for their organization’s successful CPOE implementation and willingly shared the “good, bad and the ugly” about their respective rollouts. The forum provided an opportunity for hospitals, at various stages, to learn key takeaways and to share their experiences with the group. This program attracted nineteen hospitals that included pharmacists, physician and nursing leadership, CPOE project leaders and CIOs.
