Orders and results, e-prescribing, clinical decision support, and alert fatigue.
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An order is a request with an owner, a state machine and a required acknowledgement of its result, and an alert on that pathway earns attention only if it is specific, actionable, delivered to whoever can act, and rare enough that firing means something. Measure override rates and retire alerts that fail.
Plan for four modes rather than one: a continuously fed read-only viewer on independent infrastructure, printed ward-level essentials, paper ordering with pre-allocated temporary identifiers, and a recovery process that backloads events at their original times and reviews everything that queued during the window.
Treat the paper list as the requirements document you never got. It is holding something the system cannot express - ordering by clinical worry, tasks with no order behind them, the sentence explaining why a patient is being watched - and the hazard is that it is private to one person.