Motivated by mounting medical costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to embrace a seemingly simple way to save billions of dollars a year: prescribe medications online. Officials in the public and private sectors say electronic prescriptions will make transactions more efficient, reduce medication errors and entice doctors to prescribe less expensive drugs.

Although there has been some pushback by physicians who have been working in the industry for a while, however the up and coming practitioners are doing much of this work on-line in medical school.

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