We have mandatory disease reporting for infectious diseases like malaria and such, and we still have a reporting problem, with 5% reported and 95% not reported, so I think mandatory reporting is not going to be the solution if we really want to have.... I want to keep track of all those adverse events, so here's the idea behind what I'm proposing.
We're already going to put $50 million into a national prescribing system, so why don't we make it a feature component to include drug stop orders and mandatory documentation on the reason for the stop order and the problem that ensued, which would be important for patient safety and important for our proactive monitoring system? That would be good for patient safety, and we will actually get information on a much faster, broader scale than we will only with adverse drug reaction reporting.
That's what I'm proposing. It does work, because it's important therapeutically and important for patient safety. We have an opportunity here.