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Prescribing via handheld computer reduces fraud, medication errors. (Important Questions to Ask First).

Publication: Skin & Allergy News

Publication Date: 01-JAN-02

Author: McNamara, Damian
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COPYRIGHT 2002 International Medical News Group

ATLANTA -- Electronic prescribing via handheld computer has the potential to improve work flow, reduce prescription fraud, provide formulary and copay information, and reduce medication errors.

"We're not just taking what we put on paper and making it electronic. There is much more that electronic prescribing gets you," Dr. Leonard S. Fromer said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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