Software intended to preventdoctors from prescribing the wrong types of drugs to patients isfalling short.

A new study by the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that rateshospitals, found that computerized-physician-order-entry systems inhospitals often did not tell a doctor not to prescribe a medicationthat, based on the patient’s information, presented a potentiallyserious threat to the patient’s health.

Nearly 40 percent of potentially harmful prescriptions were notflagged by the computer systems in the 1,800hospitals that voluntarily participated in the study. Thirteenpercent of potentially fatal prescriptions were not flaggedeither.

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