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Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 repo
Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 repo
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2015-03-25
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Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine(IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually. Many such errors result from unclear abbreviations and dosage indications and illegible writing on some of the 3.2 billion prescriptions written in the U. S. every year.
To address the problem—and give the push for electronic medical records a shove—a coalition of health care companies and technology firms will launch a program Tuesday to enable all doctors in the U. S. to write electronic prescriptions for free.
Although some doctors have been prescribing electronically for years, many still use pen and paper. This is the first national effort to make a Web-based tool free for all doctors. Tullman says that even though 90% of the country’s approximately 550,000 doctors have access to the Internet, fewer than 10% of them have invested the time and money required to begin using electronic medical records or e-prescriptions.
By providing doctors with free tools and support—and perhaps a little prodding from the big insurers who pay the bills—the NEPSI(The National e-prescribing Patient Safety Initiative)alliance hopes to encourage a quickening in adoption of electronic prescribing. Because the new program is web-based, no special software or hardware is required, and NEPSI says the new system takes 15 minutes to learn. Sprint plans to give away 1,000 web-enabled phones to be used to transmit e-prescriptions and to demonstrate the technology’s ease of use. To keep pharmacies plugged into the new system, Sure Scripts, which links pharmacies around the country much like the national ATM network connects banks, will handle the e-prescriptions traffic from doctors to the country’s 55,000 pharmacies.
Automation should eliminate many of the errors that occur when pharmacists misunderstand or misrecord medication names or dosages conveyed messily on paper or hurriedly by phone. Given that there are more than 17,000 pharmaceutical brands and generics available, a spoken request for Celebrex, for instance, can be mistaken for Celexa, or a notation requesting 150 milligrams of a drug might be read as 1500. In electronic systems, drugs and dosages are selected from menus to prevent input errors, and pharmacists don’t need to re-enter information.
Sure Scripts CEO Kevin Hutchinson says one key to reducing medication errors is to get the most prolific prescribers to transition to electronic processing. "Not a lot of people understand that 15% of physicians in the U. S. write 50% of the prescription volume," Hutchinson says. "And 30% of them write 80%. So it’s not about getting 100% of physicians to e-prescribe. It’s about getting those key 30% who prescribe the most. Then you’ve automated the process. "
Wider adoption of e-prescribing could lead to further efficiency in medical record keeping, which many believe is vital to both improving health care delivery and lowering costs. "Electronic prescribing could be an on-ramp for physicians beginning to use a full-featured electronic medical records system," Hutchinson says. "That’s
the holy grail
. "
According to Paragraph 4, which of the following is true about Sure Scripts?
选项
A、It is linked with the national ATM network.
B、It will donate some web-enabled phones to doctors.
C、It controls all the pharmacies of the country.
D、It links all the pharmacies with the doctors.
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。由题干提示定位至第四段。该段最后一句提到,为了使药房也融人这项新系统中,Sure Scripts(临床协作性网络)通过将全国的药房连接在一起,就像全国的ATM机将银行连接起来一样,就能处理来自医生的电子处方并将其发送到全国的5.5万家药店,因此正确答案为[D]。文中并没有提及控制药房,故排除[C];从该段还可以得知,是Sprint公司捐献了1000部上网手机,而非Sure Scirpts所为,故排除[B]。
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