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Article: Vendors sound off on e-prescribing: a Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management roundup*.
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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On May 6, 2004, departing Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson appointed David J. Brailer, MD, PhD, one of the nation's preeminent authorities on electronic healthcare, as the first National Health Information Technology Coordinator, Dr. Brailer's duty is to execute the Executive Order of April 27, 2004, calling for the universal deployment of electronic medical records systems within ten years. Dr. Brailer has since indicated that a primary target will be electronic organization of the institutional pharmacy process within three years.
The urgency shouldn't be surprising in that institutional pharmacy operations are among the most cumbersome and ...