U.S. doctors write about 3.2 billion prescriptions every year. The Institute of Medicine reports that, of those, 1.5 million injuries occur because pharmacists or hospital workers misread that handwriting. Worse, sloppily written prescriptions lead to more than 7,000 patient deaths per year.
Fortunately, health-care providers and tech companies have come up with a solution: the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative, which encourages doctors to write prescriptions electronically.
Congress backed the plan in 2008, and since then, medical errors caused by sloppy scribbles have dropped by 90 percent.
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