Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Impact of Non-Interruptive Alerts

• Drilled down into the drug-lab alerts
• No difference in lab ordering between control and intervention groups
• Is it a user interface issue or are non-interruptive alerts just not effective?
• Cost- benefit issue
  • Minimize interruptions so higher risk alerts are accepted more often... yet little benefit seen with non-interruptive alerts