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Campaign hopes to erase bad handwriting

JOE FRIESEN

Globe and Mail Update

Latest comment posted at 9:44 PM EDT 21/07/07

Winnipeg health officials launch campaign to curb dangerously poor penmanship among the medical profession there ...Read the full article

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  1. gord winters from Canada writes: if it doesn't affect them economically they could not care less.

    i doubt they would even take notice of fines. they wouldn't pay them.

    the medical profession is there to extract as much money as possible from the public.

    there is nothing in there motivation about improving health outcomes.

    people think we have a less money obsessed system than the americans. i'm sorry to tell you otherwise. it might be an even more greed based system, but the corruption is at the wholesale level, not the retail level.

    maybe the police can come and beat me for speaking my mind.

    we are definately turning into that sort of country.
  2. Terry Terry from Brantford, Canada writes: Handwriting has been going down the toilet for the last 15 years at least, and penmanship has been dead and buried since the sixties. The scary part is now our typing, mine 2, is following right behind. ...opps I meant "mine too". The concept now is that if your reader can (perhaps) figure out what you (might be) saying, using abbreviations, letter/number homonyms, BTW, WTF, LOL-type things, then you've "written" something. All this makes me think, we're coming back to where we came in and will soon just be grunting @ each other. Hey wazzup? Did I say @? I meant "at". CU
  3. Robert P from Canada writes: For years my doctor (she was part of the initial trial) has used MOXXI – a project by McGill University in Montreal and now a commercial product. Basically this system addresses directly all the concerns in this article. Using a hand held device she enters my prescription which is transmitted to a central repository and I get a printed prescription (she still signs it). The idea behind the system is that in wide use the doctor would be aware of all your prescriptions (ie: all doctors would be on the system) which would limit cases of adverse drug interactions. Also, the pharmacist enter the MOXXI code to pull the prescription into their system do reduce transcription errors. Obviously in this system penmanship is not an issue. The system has been around for years and in use (at least 2003). Though it doesn’t hurt to inform doctors of the issues with bad acronyms and unclear symbols it would not overall solve the same amount of issues at this system. I’m more curious on these privacy issues Dr. Pope is speaking of, I thought these were resolved (Though, way back when I first went into the trial I did sign a consent form). For more background see: www.moxximedical.com and www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/pubs/chipp-ppics/2004-moxxi/moxxi_description_e.html

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