Standard protocol order sets automation

Purpose

1. Standard protocol order sets automation automates the timely and accurate creation, approval, and delivery of physician-driven medication and treatment orders in internal medicine wards.

2. Automates protocol-based order generation for admissions, continuing care, and discharge workflows to ensure best practices and compliance.

3. Automates multidisciplinary clause logic for selecting, validating, and routing order sets to pharmacy, nursing, and lab systems.

4. Automates the reduction of transcription errors and standardizes physician order workflows, supporting clinical governance and audit trails.

Trigger Conditions

1. Patient admission or discharge notifications received from the EHR system.

2. Automated physician sign-in to ward rounds in clinical systems.

3. Automated lab result thresholds crossed requiring protocol-based intervention.

4. Automated scheduled medication reviews or daily order cycles as set in clinical administration.

Platform Variants

1. Epic EHR

• Function/API: Orders API – automatedly posts standard medication and care orders upon patient admission.
  

2. Cerner Millennium

• Feature/Setting: CarePath PowerPlans – automates activation based on admission triggers.
  

3. Allscripts Sunrise

• Function: Order Entry API – automates order set push to clinical workflows.
  

4. Meditech Expanse

• Feature/Setting: Electronic Order Sets – automates templated order set release per protocol trigger.
  

5. Oracle Health

• Feature/Setting: Clinical Orders API – automates population of medication protocol sets.
  

6. Salesforce Health Cloud

• Function: Flow Orchestration – automates task routing for order acceptance and sign-off.
  

7. Microsoft Power Automate

• Function: Automated workflows – automates initiation and tracking of standard order tasks.
  

8. AWS HealthLake

• API: FHIR APIs – automates retrieval and update of clinical order resources.
  

9. Google Cloud Healthcare API

• Function: FHIR Store triggers – automates real-time order event processing.
  

10. Redox

• Function: Data Model Routes – automates order set integration between EHR and pharmacy solutions.
  

11. InterSystems HealthShare

• Feature: Workflow Orchestrator – automates protocol order set distribution across care team systems.
  

12. MuleSoft

• Function: Healthcare Integrations – automates real-time order set delivery to downstream clinical apps.
  

13. HL7 FHIR Services

• API: ServiceRequest and MedicationRequest resources – automates structured order payloads.
  

14. Twilio

• Feature: Programmable Messaging – automates order alerts to on-call clinicians.
  

15. SendGrid

• Feature: SMTP API – automates notification emails for new or updated orders.
  

16. Slack

• Feature: Incoming Webhooks – automates real-time delivery of protocol order alerts to ward staff channels.
  

17. Microsoft Teams

• Feature: Bot Connector API – automates broadcast and approval workflows for order sets.
  

18. ServiceNow

• Function: Workflow Designer – automates order set approvals and escalation logic.
  

19. Zapier

• Function: Multi-step Zaps – automates chaining of order creation, notification, and documentation.
  

20. Google Sheets

• Feature: App Script – automates protocol tracking and digital logging of automated orders.
  

21. DocuSign

• Feature: API Integration – automates protocol order electronic signature capture.
  

22. PagerDuty

• Function: Incident API – automates urgent escalation for abnormal protocol-triggered orders.
  

Benefits

1. Automates reduction of manual data entry for physicians and nurses.

2. Automates best practice compliance, reducing omission risk.

3. Automates multidisciplinary hand-offs for safer order reviews.

4. Automates documentation for audit and quality control.

5. Automates notification to all stakeholders, promoting timely care.

6. Automates reporting on protocol adherence, supporting quality initiatives.

7. Automates integration, allowing seamless updates across EHR and support systems.