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Involve physicians in the development and implementation of alert systems, rather than simply training them in the systems when you're ready to go live, says Linda Peitzman , MD, chief medical officer of Wolters Kluwer Health in Indianapolis.
"Get their input into how and when they want these things to fire, so that when they do fire, they won't be surprised," Peitzman says. "They will understand why they were included, and they will be much more apt to pay attention to them."
With technology growing so rapidly and health care providers wanting to improve safety by standardizing processes, there is a temptation to keep adding more alerts, she says. "There are many other tools you have for clinical decision support [that can be added] into the work flow," Peitzman says. "So, ask whether another...