The labor-intensive, time-consuming testing of Millenium order sentences is fast-becoming a thing of the past. What formerly required teams of analysts registering patients and manually entering patient prescription orders is now done with custom automation scripts. Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) knows the exercise well. NAH was up against a deadline to run a test of 7,000 pharmacy order sentences. Registering test patients and placing test orders would have required two full-time staff members over a three-week period. Clearly a big task, with significant cost and time implications. Resources being scarce and with no time to waste, NAH enlisted the help of JOE – a combination of services designed by HPG Resources for testing large order sets. JOE helps health sy

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