Medical Staff Update


	Volume 24 • No. 10 • November 2000

				-Graham Hughes, a physician and product manager with the IDX Corp., Seattle, talks with physician members of the Stanford Hospital and Clinics Physician Computer Advisor Team on Oct. 17. Hughes described his company's efforts as vendor to help implement the Physician Order Entry System, which will shift order writing from paper to electronic format in March 2001.

	Departmental orders set readied for electronic conversion scheduled to begin next year Medical staff approves changes in bylaw rules and regulations Nursing database launched by Stanford spin-off and Yale Hospice successfully completes first year VISX, Inc. to sponsor vision research Gonda tears Cardiac mapping Clinic networks with Valley nonprofits King lecture PAST ISSUES Search archives Web Design: Tyler Holland Joanna McClean MacWorks Graphics Studio
				Departmental order sets readied for electronic conversion scheduled to begin next year Departmental order sets [templates] are currently being readied and approved for an electronic format that physicians will use for entering orders online starting in March 2001. Faculty anesthesiolgist Raymond Gaeta, vice president of the medical staff, sent a letter Oct. 12 to all physicians practicing at Stanford Hospital and Clinics to alert them to the changeover to physician order entry (POE). Gaeta has been instrumental for many years in helping to ensure that electronic medical information systems were useful for physicians. In his letter, Gaeta noted that the new online order procedure, called LastWord, "will improve patient care and safety by decreasing ordering errors and delays in orders being performed. Most of the computer interaction will be 'point and click' requiring minimal typing."