Long Term Care e-Prescribing Standards Pilot Study - Final Report
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Research Activities, May 2007, No. 321
Congress reveals the results of an electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) pilot project that supports the adoption of new e-prescribing standards. These standards, required by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, would help cut both medication errors and health care costs. The pilot project demonstrated that three initial standards are already capable of supporting e-prescribing transactions...
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