“More than 3,000 years ago, the first forms of drug prescriptions appeared in ancient Babylon as healers carved medicines into clay tablets.
In the 21st century, modern-day healers have replaced clay tablets with paper ones, but little else has changed when it comes to prescribing medicine. It’s amazing how far we haven’t come and how much the medical and health care communities have managed to ignore, discount and otherwise avoid widespread adoption of health information technology.”
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Jack Lewin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 30 January 2009
