Drug effectiveness should influence what doctors prescribe

(By Larry Blandford for STAT)

Two decades ago, our system for getting drugs from doctors’ prescription pads to their patients was in desperate need of a revamp. If someone had told the health care industry then that electronic prescribing would become common practice, many would have been skeptical at best. Yet this method is now the way that most people get and fill their prescriptions. Continue reading article here…

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