April 2003
Paperless Medicine
Doctors use surprisingly low tech ways to keep track of patient information-sometimes with fatal results. Despite high costs and cultural barriers, electronic record keeping is starting to bring medicine into the digital age.
By Erika Jonietz
Doctors' lousy handwriting is infamous. Every day pharmacists stop customers to ask them what their prescriptions say, and patients pick up orders only to find that they've been given the wrong dosage or even the wrong drug. But those pharmacist misreads can mean more than mere hassles.
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