VIDEO from Medialink and General Motors: Electronic Prescriptions Save Lives and Money
March 07 2008 - 11:08AM
PR Newswire (US)
NEW YORK, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Four out of every five adults
take at least one medication or dietary supplement every day,
according to the Institute of Medicine. Every year, hundreds of
thousands of prescription drug errors are made due to handwritten
prescriptions. These errors often lead to drug mix-ups, wrong
dosages, dangerous drug interactions and allergic reactions. See
video from General Motors (NYSE:GM) at:
http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=34777 To combat growing
quality and safety concerns, a bi-partisan coalition is trying to
pass legislation aimed at expediting the use of electronic
prescribing. "E-prescribing" is when a physician uses a computer or
hand-held computing device to electronically generate and send a
prescription to a pharmacist's computer. The benefits of this
technology include reducing potentially harmful drug interactions
by alerting physicians of possible risks, eliminating illegible
physician hand-written prescriptions and cutting patient wait time
at the pharmacy. Registered journalists can access video, audio,
text, graphics and photos for free and unrestricted use at
http://www.mediaseed.tv/. 03FF08-0048 DATASOURCE: Medialink and
General Motors CONTACT: Medialink, New York, +1-888-560-5378, Web
site: http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=34777
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