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Pharmacies are leading the way.(electronic prescribing)
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Chain Drug Review
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August 30, 2004
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WASHINGTON -- The federal government's support for expediting the use of electronic prescribing is an important step toward improving America's health care system, witnesses told a Congressional subcommittee late last month.
"More than 3 billion prescriptions are written annually," Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Jonathan Teich told the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health. "Given this volume, even a small improvement in quality attributable to electronic prescribing would translate into significant health care cost and safety benefits if electronic prescribing is broadly adopted."
Speaking on behalf of the nation's community pharmacies, National ...