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NewsPharmacy tracking system cuts med waste at hospital
The pharmacy at a large Ohio hospital is claiming to have reduced waste by 32 percent with the help of a medication tracking system. Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus says missing-medication Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Tracking of controlled substances
California now has a statewide, web-based tool to track the use of narcotics and other controlled substances, in hopes of preventing duplication of prescriptions that could feed patient addictions. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: ACOP develops IT for "medical homes"; Harris gets NHIN gateway contract; and much more...
> The American College of Physicians has gotten a $50,000 grant that it plans to use to develop physician IT tools in order to support the development of the "medical home" model. Read more...
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