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Digital prescriptions: it’s about time

So far, the American healthcare industry has been unnecessarily slow in joining the Information Age.  Although the excuse is usually the fact that they want to ensure safety and confidentiality of patient data, anybody who has ever worked in the industry knows that it’s far easier to misplace a paper file (thousands of which can […]

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Fixing Mistakes: The failing war on drugs

“Fixing Mistakes” will be a new series where I talk about how our society can learn from its mistakes and correct its own problems… but we can only do it if we’re willing to think outside the box.
We have spent countless amounts of money, manpower, and resources in an attempt to fight the drug trade… […]

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