Figure 3

Medications Ordered Electronically

The average percentage of medication orders entered electronically by each group of clinicians in each benchmark group.

	All Respondents	Most Wired	Least Wired	Tech Leaders	IT Quality Leaders
Physicians	13%	28%	2%	18%	42%
Nurses	7	8	6	7	9
Pharmacists	67	58	61	65	47
Nonclinicians	4	5	3	8	1
Manually ordered	9	1	28	2	1
Total medication orders	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

Source: 2005 Hospitals & Health Networks' Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study

This article 1st appeared in the July 2005 issue of HHN Magazine.

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