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Dangerous drug interactions and preventable medication mistakes kill thousands of Americans and sicken or hospitalize more than a million others. Many of them are America’s seniors.
Electronic prescribing is the answer. It eliminates illegible, handwritten prescriptions, and helps doctors prevent dangerous drug interactions and medication errors before a prescription is written. E-prescribing could also save Medicare billions of dollars — even after funding physician start-up costs. Sadly, despite last year’s Institute of Medicine recommendation that all physicians use e-prescribing by 2010, less than one in ten doctors have heeded the call.No morE waitiNg. it’s time to require electronic prescribing in medicare now.
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