least one medication or dietary supplement every day, according to the
Institute of Medicine. Every year, hundreds of thousands of prescription
drug errors are made due to handwritten prescriptions. These errors often
lead to drug mix-ups, wrong dosages, dangerous drug interactions and
allergic reactions.
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To combat growing quality and safety concerns, a bi-partisan coalition
is trying to pass legislation aimed at expediting the use of electronic
prescribing. "E-prescribing" is when a physician uses a computer or
hand-held computing device to electronically generate and send a
prescription to a pharmacist's computer. The benefits of this technology
include reducing potentially harmful drug interactions by alerting
physicians of possible risks, eliminating illegible physician hand-written
prescriptions and cutting patient wait time at the pharmacy.
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