As community demand for quality health care services and the cost of providing these services continue to rise, a growing amount of focus is being placed on the potential of health information technology (HIT) to reduce health care spending and improve the efficiency, quality, and safety of medical care. The provision of safe and effective healthcare remains a continuing challenge for clinicians, especially in light of the growing awareness of medical error [1]. The desire of many health care systems to improve consistency and safety in patient care has prompted substantial investment in the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines [2] over the past several decades. However, the effective dissemination of these guidelines has remained a difficult task, and HIT has been proposed as a means to effectively implement these guidelines in practice [3].