News tagged with pharmacy prescription

Investors to get Google records on online drug ads

(AP) -- A Delaware judge has given Google Inc. until April 9 to give a pension fund investors company documents involving what authorities said was the illegal online marketing of prescription drugs to U.S. consumers by ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Universal standards proposed for prescription container labels to help reduce medication misuse

For the first time, universal standards to guide the content, language, format and appearance of prescription medication labels to reflect how patients read and understand medication instructions are being proposed on a national ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

RI tracking swine flu through electronic records

(AP) -- Rhode Island health officials are using electronic prescription records to track the spread of swine flu.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study looks at re-identification risks

A recent study led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the information in hospital prescription records can quite easily re-identify ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pharmacies plan to translate drug instructions

(AP) -- Five major pharmacy chains agreed Tuesday to print drug instructions at their New York stores in five languages other than English and indicated that they plan to expand the option to other states.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0