E-prescribing may cause more errors.

Australian Doctor,  September, 2005  

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by Eleanor Limprecht

DOCTORS using electronic prescribing without electronic decision support risk making more prescribing errors, including giving patients the wrong doses and the wrong medicines, according to a government research report.

Concerns about e-prescribing systems were highlighted in the Productivity Commission's 700-page report on medical technology and its impact on health costs, released last week.

The report claims the implementation of general practice information technology has not been cost-effective. It goes on to echo GP concerns that e-prescribing ...

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