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Record Keeping and analysing Family Medical History is made easy with Prescription Pad

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Famous German biologist and philosopher of the 19 th century, Ernst Haeckel, in his Theory of Recapitulation, said: "Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny" This suggests that the developmental stage of an embryo repeats all the intermediate phases of its ancestors throughout evolution. When the entire evolutionary phase is reincarnated in the process of birth, then it is obvious that the family/ancestral diseases and disorders are also passed on. When a doctor diagnoses a patient, family history plays an important role in determining many hidden reasons for the disease. There is always a concern remains whether the exact family medical history is properly referred to or at times they are overlooked. It is quite possible for human beings; however, an automated electronic prescription software would never miss it out. Further research in this context reveals that the occurrence of a specific disease condition remains prominent for at least the next eight generations down...

Paediatric Prescription Writing is Clumsy, but Easy with Specialised Prescription Writing Software

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Prescription writing for children has always been a careful task for medical practitioners. The age of the children plays a very important role in writing prescriptions as the strength of the dose is accordingly determined. Along with the composition of the medicines, doctors must take care of simple and general facts as well. For instance, many liquid preparations suitable for children usually contain sugar that encourage tooth decay. For long-term treatment, sugar-free preparations are advisable. This is just one, there are many such examples. Hence, the best help that doctors can take is use of specialised electronic prescription writing software in their practice. It has been some time; such medical software is being used in some of the big medical institutes in our country and abroad. However, its widespread use is something that can streamline the practice of medical prescription writing. An e-prescribing software with child growth module can help the paediatrician in more ...

Delhi High Court clarifies: No Lab Technician can verify Lab Reports

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A division bench of the Delhi High Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Association of Clinical Biochemists and Microbiologists (ACBM) and upheld the MCI’s (Medical Council of India) notification that bars all laboratory technicians from verifying medical test reports. To give a backdrop to the event, the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) had raised a three-point clarification notification to the Medical Council of India on dated 12.08.2016. According to the letter NABL sought clarification to the following queries. Whether the M. Sc. with Ph. D. candidates who as a matter of fact are not registered with MCI are eligible to sign medical laboratory reports? Can persons holding MBBS degree registered with MCI/State Medical Council sign the medical test reports? Can PhD (Medical Microbiology, Medical Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Applied Biology, Cytogenetics, Biotechnology) in relevant discipline be allowed to sigh me...