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Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 repo

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问题     Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine(IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually. Many such errors result from unclear abbreviations and dosage indications and illegible writing on some of the 3.2 billion prescriptions written in the U. S. every year.
    To address the problem—and give the push for electronic medical records a shove—a coalition of health care companies and technology firms will launch a program Tuesday to enable all doctors in the U. S. to write electronic prescriptions for free.
    Although some doctors have been prescribing electronically for years, many still use pen and paper. This is the first national effort to make a Web-based tool free for all doctors. Tullman says that even though 90% of the country’s approximately 550,000 doctors have access to the Internet, fewer than 10% of them have invested the time and money required to begin using electronic medical records or e-prescriptions.
    By providing doctors with free tools and support—and perhaps a little prodding from the big insurers who pay the bills—the NEPSI(The National e-prescribing Patient Safety Initiative)alliance hopes to encourage a quickening in adoption of electronic prescribing. Because the new program is web-based, no special software or hardware is required, and NEPSI says the new system takes 15 minutes to learn. Sprint plans to give away 1,000 web-enabled phones to be used to transmit e-prescriptions and to demonstrate the technology’s ease of use. To keep pharmacies plugged into the new system, Sure Scripts, which links pharmacies around the country much like the national ATM network connects banks, will handle the e-prescriptions traffic from doctors to the country’s 55,000 pharmacies.
    Automation should eliminate many of the errors that occur when pharmacists misunderstand or misrecord medication names or dosages conveyed messily on paper or hurriedly by phone. Given that there are more than 17,000 pharmaceutical brands and generics available, a spoken request for Celebrex, for instance, can be mistaken for Celexa, or a notation requesting 150 milligrams of a drug might be read as 1500. In electronic systems, drugs and dosages are selected from menus to prevent input errors, and pharmacists don’t need to re-enter information.
    Sure Scripts CEO Kevin Hutchinson says one key to reducing medication errors is to get the most prolific prescribers to transition to electronic processing. "Not a lot of people understand that 15% of physicians in the U. S. write 50% of the prescription volume," Hutchinson says. "And 30% of them write 80%. So it’s not about getting 100% of physicians to e-prescribe. It’s about getting those key 30% who prescribe the most. Then you’ve automated the process. "
    Wider adoption of e-prescribing could lead to further efficiency in medical record keeping, which many believe is vital to both improving health care delivery and lowering costs. "Electronic prescribing could be an on-ramp for physicians beginning to use a full-featured electronic medical records system," Hutchinson says. "That’s the holy grail. "
What does the phase "the holy grail"(Line 4, Para.7)probably mean?
选项 A、Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
B、The object of any prolonged endeavor.
C、The thing that people can rarely get.
D、The thing that people feel proud of.
答案B
解析 语义理解题。grail有两个含义，一个是“圣杯”，即耶稣在最后的晚餐中所使用的餐杯；一个是指人们长期追求的目标。但是通过上下文来猜测这个词义，我们得知，电子处方将会使全功能的电子医疗档案系统新时代的开启进入提速阶段，即电子处方的发展不仅能够避免因医生书写潦草而导致的医疗事故，更能够进一步促进电子医疗记录系统的更新与进步，这才是我们期待和努力达到的目标。因此，正确答案为[B]。
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