April 9, 2008 |
E-Prescribing Can Cut Costs and Improve Patient Safety, but Physicians Are Slow to Embrace It
AIS’s Health Business Daily
While physicians have been slow to embrace electronic prescribing, the experiences of several health plans in the forefront of e-prescribing point to four critical ingredients that, when used, will help such an initiative succeed and produce a significant return on investment.
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This was a good article. Patient Safety is just a critical part of good patient care, and I hope that it does motivate people to adopt an EHR. Lower malpractice coverage seems like a deal to me!