What problems are hospitals and physicians encountering in diagnosing diseases and prescribing medications?

The biggest issue facing many hospitals and doctors involves prescription mistakes. The majority of mistakes involve human errors such as fatigue, bad handwriting, and memory lapses. These errors in patient prescriptions are not always caught in time and it is both the hospital and patients that feel the negative impact of the mistake. These kinds of mistakes that lead to adverse drug events make up 41% of hospital admissions and over $2 billion in inpatient costs every year. Doctors have also made the mistake of prescribing drugs to patients without looking at the interaction of the drugs with previous medication. This has led to the deaths of over 7,000 people each year.