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I propose a ban on all handwritten physician orders in hospitals. From now on all doctors will have to use a computer keypad just as they do when surfing the web, sending email, participating in fantasy football and sending letters to editors complaining about greedy trial lawyers and frivolous malpractice lawsuits. Why take the pen out of the hand of the docs? Because, they don't know how to write so other people know what they mean.

Just What the Doctor Ordered. Review of the Evidence of the Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry System on Medication Errors

From press release (NewsWise):

Doctors are famous for sloppy scribbling -- and handwritten prescriptions lead to thousands of medication errors each year. Electronics to the rescue: U.S. hospitals that switched to computerized physician order entry systems saw a 66 percent drop in prescription errors, according to a new review of studies.

Thanks to Shirl Kennedy at Docuticker

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