Comments on: More Doctors Are Using e-Prescribing http://www.pharmalot.com/2010/03/more-doctors-are-using-e-prescribing/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:21:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: pharmavet http://www.pharmalot.com/2010/03/more-doctors-are-using-e-prescribing/#comment-477041 pharmavet Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:02:18 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=21886#comment-477041 Timely thread. Last weekend I saw the movie "War Games", where a smart teenager (Matthew Broderick) is able to hack into the Defense Dept. computer, challenging it to play a game called "Global Thermonuclear Warfare". The only problem was that the Defense Dept. computer didn't know it was a game. Anyway, most of you know the rest of the story. I live in an area where high school kids are smart enough to be able to write programming code for a mainframe computer. I would bet a year's salary that one of them could figure out a way to hack into an e-prescribing algorithm and order any drugs they want, just like Broderick was able to hack into his school's computer and change his grades. I understand that the pen and pad system may be prone to errors, but that's why God invented the telephone for the pharmacist to be able to call for clarification or verification, if necessar. Nope, I prefer the old ways of doing things. Timely thread. Last weekend I saw the movie “War Games”, where a smart teenager (Matthew Broderick) is able to hack into the Defense Dept. computer, challenging it to play a game called “Global Thermonuclear Warfare”. The only problem was that the Defense Dept. computer didn’t know it was a game. Anyway, most of you know the rest of the story.

I live in an area where high school kids are smart enough to be able to write programming code for a mainframe computer. I would bet a year’s salary that one of them could figure out a way to hack into an e-prescribing algorithm and order any drugs they want, just like Broderick was able to hack into his school’s computer and change his grades.

I understand that the pen and pad system may be prone to errors, but that’s why God invented the telephone for the pharmacist to be able to call for clarification or verification, if necessar. Nope, I prefer the old ways of doing things.

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