In times of turmoil, automated orders can trigger extreme price swings, especially if the algorithm does not take account of prices.
Do automated orders sent directly to nurses increase influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates among inpatients compared with physician reminder notices?
As the S&P futures dropped, it triggered automated orders to sell the underlying stocks, which triggered a vicious cycle as the selling in futures led to selling in stocks which led to more selling in futures.
After a pregnancy complicated by GDM, automated orders for postpartum testing with notification to physicians and electronically generated telephone and e-mail reminder messages to patients may improve the rates of postpartum testing for persistence of glucose intolerance.
Physician orders can be recorded in several ways, with varying degrees of automation, including selecting individual chemotherapy drugs with pre-populated fields or customizing automated orders with free-text entry.
The government found that there was also a heavy reliance by investors on automated orders to sell at the market price once stock prices had declined by a certain amount.
