2 million: The number of adverse
drug events that experts predict could be prevented annually by e-prescribing - of which 130,000 are life-threatening. This could avoid more than 2 million adverse drug events annually, of which 130,000 are life-threatening.

Source: Pilot Testing of Initial Electronic Prescribing Standards
Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2007 *

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Submitted by Anonymous M : June 10, 10:20am

It seems as though updating prescriptions so that they can be filled, cross-checked, renewed, etc. electronically would save enormous amounts of time; time which doctors could then spend with the patients. This would be a worthwhile use of money to better the practice of medicine.


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