PERSCRIPTIONS BY E-MAIL.

• Position: Brief Article

At least 165 million prescriptions are written each year in New York, and probably half of them are illegible, at least to a layman. As of last summer, New York now allows e-mail and fax communication between a physician and a pharmacist, a move that should eliminate a lot of prescription errors. Forty other states already allow prescriptions to be faxed, and 30 allow them to be e-mailed. The new regulations...