E-prescribing

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According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, e-prescribing is, “a prescriber’s ability to electronically send an accurate, error-free and understandable prescription directly to a pharmacy from the point-of-care.” Studies have demonstrated that replacing handwritten prescriptions with this electronic transmission greatly reduces medication errors.

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