In their recent commendable article, ‘‘A Cross-site Qualitative Study of Physician Order Entry,’ ’ Ash et al.1 concluded that

collaboration and trust among organizational members and active engagement of clinicians are important factors in successfully implementing computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems. The article contributed to our un-derstanding of the reasons behind physicians ’ resistance and the factors that might promote successful CPOE im-plementations. Although the article mentioned ‘‘pharmacists as team members,’ ’ their role was not described explicitly. We would like to recommend active incorporation of clinical pharmacists in the health care team involved in using CPOE. Well-designed CPOE systems can improve the safety of patient care and reduce health care costs2–4 caused by medi-cation errors. Yet, as the authors of this study mention, many physicians have been reluctant to use CPOE.1,6–9 From the physicians ’ perspective, CPOE generally takes more time tha