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Today, most doctors -- and patients -- benefit from the implementation of electronic health records and e-prescribing, where handwriting is no longer used.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Zaner Bloser, We Hardly Knew Ye Yolanda Reid Chassiakos 2011
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Today, most doctors -- and patients -- benefit from the implementation of electronic health records and e-prescribing, where handwriting is no longer used.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Zaner Bloser, We Hardly Knew Ye Yolanda Reid Chassiakos 2011
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Taking a cue from that industry, her company uses simulation programs to help clinicians learn things like e-prescribing a drug or entering an allergy into an electronic record.
Getting Docs to Use PCs Katherine Hobson 2011
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Pharmacy chains, including Walgreen Co. and CVS Caremark Corp., say they like e-prescribing because it means their staff spend less time on the phone sorting out problems with doctors.
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An e-prescribing system typically can later be incorporated into a medical records system.
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For medical practices, the cost of e-prescribing software and hardware, such as laptops, as well as training can range from about $1,000 to $1,750 per ph ysician, according to software makers.
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For some e-prescribing programs, symbols in the form of small faces appear on the screen: A green smiley face means the medication will be the cheapest for a patient, or that it's the preferred drug based on other medications the patient is taking.
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The recent DEA ruling "is what we've all been waiting for," says John Halamka, an emergency-room physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who has used e-prescribing for three years.
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A study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, published in February in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that e-prescribing significantly reduced errors that occurred with paper prescriptions, including patients receiving medications of the wrong dose or incorrect usage instructions.
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Insurance information is also available without e-prescribing, but usually requires a doctor or his staff poring through binders of information.
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