I hope you and your family are okay.

That sounds great. Up here it is a mixed bag. Beside px are done by hand in the chart, but if they are ongoing px then it is punch into the system and ordered and reorder automatically. To me this is still far from ideal. Hospitals thought they may seem high-tech to the outside observer usually are very low tech because of the long drawn out approval processes for systems.

>I had to make a visit to the emergency room over christmas. To my surprise, the prescriptions were printed out by computer. As long as the doctor selected or entered the correct drug and dosage from the database, the computer printed it out for the pharmacy. That was in the Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro. However, the military has been doing this for years. A doctor has to select a drug from a database and an approved dosage and the prescription is printed and goes directly to the screen at the pharmacy. You walk over to the pharmacy (it is in the same building) and your prescriptions are usually already ready and waiting for you.
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>>"Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It's a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually. Many such errors result from unclear abbreviations and dosage indications and illegible writing on some of the 3.2 billion prescriptions written in the U.S. every year."
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>>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1578074,00.html