In "Ezra Klein's Wonkblog," the Washington Post (2/2, Kliff) discusses a "study, published this week in the online journal PLoS One," which "examined medical errors at two Australian hospitals before and after implementing an e-prescribing system, where doctors use a computer to assist with ordering medications. The computer system studied here reviewed the patient's current medications, alerted the prescriber to any potential conflicts, and then sent the order off, electronically, to the pharmacy." Notably, "when hospitals...switched to e-prescribing, the impact was pretty impressive. Error rates in prescriptions dropped by 60 percent, the researchers found."