Drug Development
Sprint Provides Free, Customized Smartphones for the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative
Published in Drug Law Weekly, August 7th, 2007
Studies indicate that a key barrier to the adoption of electronic prescribing is the reluctance of physicians to change their workflow of pulling out a prescription pad and handing patients a paper prescription. Through a new initiative launched by Sprint (NYSE:S) and Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX), physicians now have the option to use a Sprint smartphone to generate electronic prescriptions, without physically leaving the exam room.
As part of this new initiative, Sprint will donate a customized PCS Vision(SM) Smart Device PPC-6700 to 1,000 licensed prescribers who register for the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative(SM) (NEPSI SM) and activate NEPSI's Web-based...
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