Combating Alert Fatigue to Improve Clinician Adoption
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confronting healthcare organizations in their quest to encourage enthusiastic adoption of CPOE and clinical decision support (CDS) at the point of care. If too many alerts are triggered when medications or tests are being order, the likelihood is very high physicians will eventually tune out or actively override even high severity alerts. Alert fatigue can also cause physicians to bypass or remain skeptical of CPOE, resulting in low adoption rates that impact outcomes and the hospital’s return on its technology investment. This is typically the end result when, as one hospital CMIO noted, alert fatigue drives clinicians to view CPOE as a “challenge to their autonomy or the flavor of the month.”
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