Article ID: | iaor20118675 |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 7-8 |
Start Page Number: | 639 |
End Page Number: | 649 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
Journal: | Journal of Operations Management |
Authors: | Devaraj Sarv, Angst Corey M, Queenan Carrie C |
Keywords: | medicine |
Doctors’ orders entered with Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) systems are designed to enhance patient care by standardizing routines that are intended to improve quality of healthcare. As with other health information technology (IT) performance studies, literature shows conflicting results regarding the CPOE–performance relationship. By adopting a more nuanced perspective and employing not just adoption but extent of use of CPOE, we first examine whether or not CPOE