Throughout the country, medical facilities are looking to computers to help decrease the amount of prescription drug errors. Medical facilities throughout New Hampshire are beginning to adopt a computerized medical record system.

The new system will have a doctor input medical information and prescriptions directly into a laptop. This will help to prevent medical errors and prescription errors caused by misread or bad handwriting.

In this new system, prescriptions will be entered into the laptop and sent directly to the pharmacy, which is intended to prevent prescription fraud and errors.

Currently, prescription errors caused by handwriting accounts for a large percentage of medical malpractice and prescription drug related injuries and fatalities.

Defective drug attorneys are working on cases in which severe adverse reactions are attributed to prescription drugs.

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