TO opponents of business-methods patents, Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, has become a poster boy for his patent covering a "one click" electronic ordering system.
Future Technology Associates received more than $74 million over five and a half years from the Education Department to set up the electronic ordering system for principals and to integrate the department's financial system with other city agencies' systems.
Also interesting: Processing a prescription through an electronic ordering system can halve the likelihood of a drug error, preventing more than 17 million such errors in U.S. hospitals over the course of a year.
They range from a nurse's realizing she received the wrong dose of medication from the pharmacy to a medical student's stopping her patient from getting a procedure that the physician thought he had canceled in the new electronic ordering system.
He also overhauled the $15 million electronic ordering system, which had been improperly installed, leaving stockers to walk the aisles with pads and pencils to check which of a store's 20,000 items were running low.
For imaging or blood work to be completed prior to CPOE, an order would be written on the chart and then the nurse would enter the orders in the electronic ordering system on behalf of the physician.
It was carried out in the period of August 2005 to August 2008 across a hospital pathology service in Sydney, Australia during the introduction of a new laboratory information system and electronic ordering system.
In Australia and the USA, a unique barcode for each patient as part of a fully electronic ordering system is being introduced.
At our center, we have found that ceftriaxone is often given at 1 g daily either in reference to online resources from other major teaching institutions or because 1 g is the general preset dose for this antibiotic as generated by the electronic ordering system.
You can usually request a birth certificate in person at a Vital Statistics Office, online using a secure electronic ordering system, or by mail.
One of the first "bounties" is for information to challenge Amazon.com's claim over a "one click" electronic ordering systems.
