CPRS offers the following new features and components that OE/RR did not have:
· Order checking
· Adverse Reaction Tracking
· Discharge summaries
· Problem list
· Lexicon
· Order sets
· Time-delay orders
· Graphical user interface (GUI)
· HL-7 communications protocol for transferring messages among packages
· Text Integration Utilities (TIU) and Authorization/Subscription Utility (ASU), which will allow setting of business rules, document types, user classes, etc. to control access to documents, reports, verification, signing, and so on
· Support of the Ambulatory Care Date Capture project for capturing encounter data for workload credit, as well as capturing clinically relevant data for reminders and reports