In the years that followed, there was an attempt to make paper prescribing more secure, but the efforts weren’t enough to outsmart diverters. And frankly, there were hardly any regulations to ...

Experts say hospitals could improve patient care, reduce errors and become more efficient if they embraced electronic records and prescribing. But new research for The BMJ shows pen and paper ...

Three-quarters of trusts in England that responded to a survey by The BMJ are still reliant on paper patient notes and drug charts, despite progress towards electronic records and prescribing.

to pay the penalty for allegedly breaking that state’s law by prescribing abortion medication via telemedicine. Paper bags containing the medication used for a medical abortion, follow-up ...

Several trusts have set the standard for implementing digital prescribing quickly ... commented that the pharmacy team felt the brunt of the change when their existing paper processes came up against ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. E-prescribing software provides a faster, safer way to generate and fill medication orders. It can reduce errors in the pharmacy and ...

How do doctors, nurse practitioners, physician associates, pharmacists and patients learn about drug side effects? The most comprehensive source for such data comes from the official prescribing ...