Table 2.
Amsterdam | Copenhagen | Denain | Sofia | |
---|---|---|---|---|
CPOE name |
Medicator/ESV |
EPM |
CPOE module of DxCare |
Medica |
CPOE vendor |
iSoft |
Accure/IBM |
Medasys |
Home-grown/Macrosoft |
Year of CPOE introduction |
2004 |
Glostrup: 2009 |
2003 |
2010 |
|
|
Herlev: 2007 |
|
|
|
|
Hillerød: 2006 |
|
|
Type of alerting |
Automatic alerts1 |
Automatic alerts1 |
Optional alerts2 |
Automatic alerts1 |
Basic CDS functionalities according to Kuperman[13] | ||||
Drug-allergy checking |
|
X |
|
|
Basic dosing guidance |
X |
|
X |
X |
Formulary decision support |
|
|
|
|
Duplicate therapy checking |
X |
X |
|
|
Drug-drug interaction checking |
X |
X |
X |
|
Advanced CDS functionalities according to Kuperman[13] | ||||
None implemented (advanced dosing guidance, guidance for medication-related laboratory testing, drug-disease contraindication checking, drug-pregnancy checking). |
1Automatic alerts are triggered by the system and pop up automatically. 2Optional alerts are triggered by the user and only pop up if the user explicitly asks for advice (e.g. by clicking a “check prescription” button).