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National coalition formed to provide free electronic prescribing to all U.S. physicians
February 12th, 2007
A coalition of prominent technology companies and healthcare organizations announced a national initiative to provide free electronic prescribing for every physician in America. The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI) is the first nationwide effort to improve patient safety by offering a solution to medication errors. Preventable medication errors injure at least 1.5 million Americans and claim more than 7,000 lives each year, according to a July 2006 study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. In an effort to reduce these errors, the IOM has called on all of the nation's physicians to adopt...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2007-02-12)
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