Organisational communication perspectives provide a framework for examining the impact of new Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE) systems on health care organisations. The aim of this study was to utilise performance metrics (volume of telephone/fax calls and the management of unfulfilled test requests) as a way of monitoring the impact of a new CPOE system on the communication (synchrono...

The traceability of domestic carnivores facilitates the monitoring of such animals for health purposes and for the management of suspected contagious diseases. A traceability system can also assist in the detection of fraud, lost or stolen animals, and in finding owners. To be effective, a system for the ongoing monitoring of these animals and their movements is required. Marking domestic carni...

Computerised primary care data are essential for patient access to records, quality improvement and research. Whilst patients can request paper copies of their records and audit of quality is possible on paper – providing larger numbers of people convenient access to their records and monitoring quality on a national scale requires computerisation of routinely collected primary care data. So mu...

Conflict of interest: All authors are employees and equity holders in CogState Ltd, the company that develops and markets the CogSport computerised cognitive testing software.