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History and Context of Electronic Prescribing in the US and UK

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With the advent of solid state technology, where for the first time it was possible to build computers that were powerful enough to handle large volumes of data with optimal speed, but small enough to be of practical use in a working environment, organizations began to see the potential of computer-based systems to replace paper records of different sorts.

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    iCM functionality was incorporated into the iSOFT integrated product, Lorenzo, which was developed for the English NHS Connecting for Health Project.

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Goundrey-Smith, S. (2012). History and Context of Electronic Prescribing in the US and UK. In: Principles of Electronic Prescribing. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4045-0_2

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