
|Articles|March 7, 2008
Poll finds doctors should still be allowed to prescribe manually
Pharmacists divided over whether Medicare should require e-prescribing.
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According to a Drug Topics online poll, a majority of respondents do not believe that the Medicare program should force physicians to adopt e-prescribing by 2011. In the poll, which was posted on the Drug Topics Web site in
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