I may be off base, but a few observations.
If you click on the prescription box in an office visit and delete or add scrips it will not go into the plan section (I use this sometimes to erase old meds or inactivate ones the pt is not taking). If I want it to show up in the plan as ones I prescribed that visit you use the RX button on the right side of the office note and that will bring up the prescription writer and you can inactivate or enter new scrips which will show up in the plan automatically. Although both of these steps will bring up the scrip writer this is the only one that consistently puts them in the plan.
If you want to generate a list of all current meds when you are done you should then check the box ADD UPDATED MED LIST TO PLAN and that will put it at the end of you note. Some might do this if they use plain english in all their scrips to make a complete list for the pt, although I try this and forget and start putting po, pr, tid, bid etc and that makes it hard for the pt. to read.
You also should note that if you add an allergy within the note that it won't show up in the scrips until you save the note and come back. This is obvious when you see a new pt., print all new scrips and the allergies show the blank verbage - will be there the next time. I hope Jon is going to eventually make a place for us to check meds for allergies and that will require us to actually search for the med in an allergy list, as well as scrips and not use free form scrips.
I may be misreading what is asked but thought it would be good to reiterate what I have seen over the years.
