Figure 5

Full Adoption of Alerts

The percentage of respondents in each benchmark group that say 61 percent or more of their clinicians, by category, use these alerts.

	PHYSICIANS		NURSES		PHARMACISTS
	IT Quality Leaders	Least Wired	IT Quality Leaders	Least Wired	IT Quality Leaders	Least Wired
Allergy alerts	76%	10%	88%	21%	100%	62%
Dose checking	48	4	56	11	90	60
Dose suggesting	50	3	50	6	82	36
Drug-drug interaction	64	5	74	13	98	67
Duplicate order alerts	66	4	80	32	98	63
Test prep alerts/guidance	64	3	80	17	78	10
Test sequencing alerts/guidance	54	2	56	13	62	7
Therapeutic overlap alerts	60	0	64	7	90	29

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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