--> Jim Welcome to AC. I can guarantee you that you will love AC and it will do most anything you want more quickly than you want. If it doesn't do something you need, the beauty is you can post here and generally get an answer within a day if not sooner. Especially wiht the post hog.....named Bert.
--> OK, the mutual admiration society. I agree completely with Leslie. And, she brought up a couple of points I forgot. First, if done correctly, most pharmacies will take it. But, remember pharmacies now must compete with the Targets and the WalMarts of the world. They can't afford to not have your business. If AFTER meeting with the owner of the pharmacy (a pharm tech or even the pharmacist may not be able to make that decision) and they still say no, I would politely tell them that you will tell your patients that their pharmacy will not accept faxed scripts and, therefore, you will recommend one that does.
Leslie is right about called in scripts. I often wonder why this doesn't happen more often. I had an MA call in 90 Vicodin for her daughter. Ninety! Doesn't a pharmacist blink when 30 days worth of Vicodin is called in for a 7 year old?
The phone number on the fax machine is better than any signature. Plus, I worked with one pharmacy to use a COA (Certificate of Authenticity) by giving them a 12 digit key code that they kept, and I would write in the first script as the key code only. That's a beautiful workaround. Just don't give it out on paper, lol. After two months of their checking, they gave up and just took it.
What we need to do is get rid of the anonymous trial download like a lot of companies do. And, once a certified user, you can't download any betas, etc. without your username and ID.
Kudos to Leslie for typing her letters in the room. I too finish all notes and do letters in the room. This takes seconds. I used to do them in Word four days later, and they were works of beauty, but they took me forever to go back and recall while I was writing them. And the specialists didn't seem to care anyway. This is when I answer other questions. If a patietn asks a quick question after, I answer. If it is in depth, I take advantage of it to schedule a follow-up appt by saying that is something that wouldnt be fair to deal with in the two minutes we have.
Now, what does drive me crazy is a patient taking the paper script when it is clearly displayed I would be more than happy to fax it, and then asking to have it faxed at the front window.
--> Jim not to be passive-aggressive, but if you send a script to a pharmacy by fax and it is returned, you could simply fax them a quick letter stating, "It is unfortunate that your pharmacy does not accept digitally signed faxes. I have asked my patient to go to 'their competitor' to pick up her script."
