Dearborn adds two physician advisors

Dearborn Advisors LLC has announced the addition of William F. Bria II, MD and C. Thomas Hartman, Jr., MD, as physician advisors.
   
Bria and Hartman's work at the firm will be to assist healthcare provider organizations in implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems using Dearborn's Clinician Adoption Methodology (CAM), said Dearborn.
   
Key issues that will be addressed through their work are physician governance, workflow, systems design, change management, order set and rules development, outcome metrics and physician communication strategies, said Dearborn.

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