Although e-prescribing will alter how we interact with prescriptions, the present prescription system in Ac is very rudimentary.
We should have better medication lists for patients available on demand to print out.
We should have distinctions between chronic (take all the time), active (taking now for short duration) and inactive medications (not taking anymore).
Short term medications should have a duration option and move automatically to inactive after that time, (ie If I write Amoxicillin for 10 days it would become inactive on the 11th day)
This may be fixed with e-prescribing but we should have the default sizes and dosing options for medications (especially liquids and creams)
Greg Phillips
