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News Iowa Health System offers e-prescribing software 10/22/2009 Source: Business Record Could your doctor's poor penmanship kill you? Statistically speaking, it could. Each year an estimated 1.5 million Americans suffer drug-related injuries and more than 7,000 die from preventable medication errors linked to illegible handwriting on prescription forms, according to the Institute of Medicine, the health-care arm of the National Academy of Sciences. Read the rest of the article.