Doctors offered electronic prescription system
(Reuter


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070116/hl_nm/prescriptions_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070117/2007_01_16t163941_450x330_us_prescriptions.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=WfWcPmdvsSiXFV27n7MnUg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="A pharmacist in Florida in a file photo. U.S. doctors are being offered free access to a system to prescribe drugs to patients electronically in a bid to reduce errors caused by handwritten prescriptions, a coalition of companies said on Tuesday. (Mike Carlson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The National ePrescribing Patient
Safety Initiative aims to coax physicians and pharmacies to use
a Web-based prescription system designed to prevent medication
errors often caused by illegible handwritten paper
prescriptions.</p><br clear="all"/>