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http://www.walgreens.com/about/press/default.jsp DEERFIELD, Ill. -- (Business Wire)
Walgreens (NYSE: WAG)(NASDAQ: WAG):
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Monthly total increases 185 percent over year ago
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E-prescribing promotes goals of health care reform as it lowers costs
and improves adherence to drug therapy
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Federal stimulus package further bolsters electronic prescribing
Walgreens (NYSE: WAG)(NASDAQ: WAG) pharmacies, which have used
electronic prescribing since 1992, filled a record 4 million
prescriptions electronically in October, about 22 percent of all the
drugstore chain’s eligible prescriptions and a 185 percent increase
compared with October of last year.
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