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June 14, 2014

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E-Prescribing: The end of prescription errors? Hardly!

This week Drug Topics featured  “Electronic prescriptions: Return to sender,” written by the Cynical Pharmacist. As that submission arrived, in a stroke of synchronicity, reader Tom Hanson sent us his take on the same subject. Turns out, there’s a lot more to say. We’ll bet our bottom dollar that you can add more examples from your own experience. Want to swap e-Rx stories with your fellow pharms? Send them to [email protected], and we’ll make it happen.

For years, we were told that electronic prescriptions would eliminate the confusion and time wasted when pharmacists have to call prescribers over badly written prescriptions. Well, we’ve got the e-Rxs. And boy, they were dead wrong about eliminating those calls to prescribers.

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