Chapter 4
Order/CPOE
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Ferdinand Foch
This chapter analyzes workflow number 2: Order/Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) from the same two perspectives as the previous Prescribe/eRx workflow: processes and data elements.
Initially, we isolate the Order workflow from the higher-level diagram (dataflow diagram [DFD] 0), and using top-down analysis we decompose it into lower-level processes: DFD 2.x.
We identify similarities with the Prescribe workflow, and this allows ...
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