Background: Given the widespread adoption of electronic health record systems, the majority of patient orders are now enacted through electronic orders. We aimed to describe the average number of electronic orders entered for medicine patients hospitalized at different levels of care and determine if electronic ordering patterns reflected patient acuity and severity of illness. Methods: [...]

Background: In an increasingly digital world, there are still many manual and paper based workflows in healthcare. Paper scripts are an area that is prevalent and is the gold standard for certain prescribing behaviors. Paper scripts have numerous challenges, they can be lost, are difficult to track, and physically have to be delivered to the [...]