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Info RX: Prescriptions for online patient information
Iowa physicians can now prescribe health information as well as medications after seeing a patient. A new statewide pilot program launched in April 2003 allows doctors to have customized prescription pads that they can use to point patients to quality online health information in English or Spanish from the MEDLINEplus database.
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