(TNS) -- Physicians, dentists and other clinicians start exclusively using electronic prescribing systems Sunday as New York begins sweeping paper pads out of day-to-day circulation. Gov. Andrew M.

Background: The frequency of drug prescription errors is high. Excluding errors in decision making, the remaining are mainly due to order ambiguity, non standard nomenclature and writing illegibility.

Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday signed House Bill 423 in Tallahassee. It becomes law in January and authorizes physician assistants and advanced registered nurse practitioners to prescribe controlled ...

For crores of patients and lakhs of pharmacists, illegible prescription writing by doctors has been a major issue for a long time now. It is common knowledge that illegible prescription leads to wrong ...