Paper checks out of hospital, ePrescription takes its place

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Seems as though paper has found its way into another battle — the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative wants to replace our old tree-based friend with a presumably much safer Web-based system. Rather than continually risking the lives of millions of people by making pharmacists decipher doctors’ illegible handwriting, prescriptions will are entered into a website, hopefully leaving less room for harmful and fatal errors. It’s amazing that only “one fifth of U.S. doctors” use this kind of electronic system; by now you would think the robots that have invaded hospitals would be the ones doling out the happy pills, but we guess that’s a battle left for another day. On the plus side, hackers will now have endless access to the uppers they need for monitoring their botnets around the clock.

 

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