TALK, TALK, TALK,...e-Prescribing!!

What about the NURSING HOMES BROADBAND INTERNET connections?

Help your customers - your facilities, your nursing homes, your
patients - start using secure managed broadband connections and watch
e Prescribing and Electronic ordering increase!!

Your pharmacy can't benefit from electronic communications and
ordering systems - like FacilityLink from SoftWriters FrameworkLTC
pharmacy management system product suite, UNLESS YOUR FACILITIES HAVE
COMPUTERS and BROADBAND INTERNET CONNECTIVITY!!

Send your facilities & Nursing Home Customers - this link:

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These Services are Managed Internet Solutions for your customers!

Or have them call toll free:
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Here's the FACTS:

Every year, 98,000 Americans die from medical errors - errors that were

preventable. In fact, nearly as many Americans die each year from
medical errors as from AIDS (16,500), breast cancer (42,000) and car
accidents (43,000) combined. Gov. Blagojevich today proposed a
comprehensive package of reforms to reduce the number of medical errors

and improve patient safety including:

-- Proposing that all providers use e-prescribing by 2011 to reduce the

risk of medication related errors;

-- Creating a new Division of Patient Safety within the Illinois
Department of Public Health (IDPH) to specifically focus on reducing
medical mistakes and improving patient safety;

-- Directing the new Division of Patient Safety to develop standardized

medication practices to reduce adverse drug effects;

We have all heard about e-prescribing which would allow physicians to
access information about medications the patient may be taking, any
potential interactions or allergies, and whether the drug is in the
patient's health care formulary. Physicians would then electronically
send prescriptions to the patient's pharmacy. The e-prescription can be

received by participating pharmacies as an e-mail or as a fax. Either
way, the pharmacist receives the information in a legible format,
minimizing the risk for errors. The electronic script can automatically

be checked for potential errors, such as an inconsistency in the
prescribed dosage or duplicate therapies. If the program can access the

patient's insurance formulary, the billing process could be
streamlined.

Computerized prescriptions are shown to have reduced errors by 80
percent according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
There are 750 different medications that look and sound alike. For
example, Lamictal and Lamisil both look and sound similar, however,
Lamictal is an antiepileptic drug and Lamisil fights fungus. Other
errors have occurred in mix-ups of Celebrex (treats arthritis), Cerebyx

(an anticonvulsant) and Celexa (an antidepressant). With so many
similarly named medications, and with doctors' famed illegible
handwriting, these types of mistakes do happen.

(Resources:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=47209)