CPOE Utilization Rates: Developing a Common Definition

David W. Bates, MD, MSc, and Chief, General Medicine Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Medical Director, Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Chair, CPOE Advisory Group, Leapfrog Group, and Barbara Rudolph, PhD, Director, Leaps and Measures, Leapfrog Group, will host a discussion regarding potential standards for determining the extent of utilization of CPOE in hospital settings with the intent of achieving greater reliability in measurement across hospitals and consistency across standard setting bodies.