If you open the medication button in the patient's cahrt, highlight the medication and look at history it will tell you when the medication was last refilled.
When we receive a refill request ( TC from patient, fax from pharmacy) the staff sends me a message that the patient is requesting refill of X. I open the chart, review and refill ( if approprite of course) and send the prescription electronically ( print it if a controlled med) and save the message to the chart. That makes the refill show up in the patient visit history. The visit history is getting long on some of the patients...I wish there were a way to add a label to the message...
I am trying to find ways to eliminate faxing/handling/storing/filing/shredding paper...
