Source: https://www.healthit.gov/test-method/computerized-provider-order-entry-cpoe-medications
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 10:23:23+00:00

Document:
Enable a user to record, change, and access medication orders.
Optional. Include a “reason for order” field.
Privacy and Security: This certification criterion was adopted at § 170.315(a)(1). As a result, an ONC-ACB must ensure that a product presented for certification to a § 170.315(a) “paragraph (a)” criterion includes the privacy and security criteria (adopted in § 170.315(d)) within the overall scope of the certificate issued to the product.
To meet the 2015 Edition Base EHR definition, providers must possess technology that has been certified to at least one of the following: § 170.315(a)(1) Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) – medications, § 170.315(a)(2) Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) – laboratory, or § 170.315(a)(3) Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) – diagnostic imaging.
Technical outcome – The health IT permits a user to record, change, and access medication orders.
No standard is required for demonstrating the ability to allow a user to record, change, and access medication orders.
It is not mandatory that the health IT allow a user to include a “reason for order” field, however, it is optional. The developer has the discretion to determine how to implement this optional provision (e.g., free text field or drop-down menu of pre-determined entries).

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