Business
Automakers extend prescribing pilot
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Aug. 14, 2006
The Big Three automakers have committed to invest more than $1 million to extend their 18-month-old electronic prescribing pilot in Michigan for another year, the Detroit Free Press reported. Since General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler Corp. launched their initiative, more than 1,400 physicians have signed up to receive free technology and financial incentives to prescribe electronically.
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