We just upgraded to V5 and were excited about the "Pending Medications" section. However, it doesn't seem to work like we thought.
What would be useful for us is to have it work like the following:
1) Front desk updates any demographics/insurance information on a chart, then forwards to MA.
2) MA takes patient back into exam room and enters vitals, takes basic HPI and also enters the current medications the patient is on. If the patient is requesting a refill on any medication, the MA enters this too and this all goes into the "Pending Medications" section.
3) MA then forwards the chart to the doctor. When the doctor opens the medications list, she can see the "Pending Medications" that the MA input and can update/delete or approve them accordingly.
This is how I thought this works, but when you enter medications to the "Pending Medications" list, they don't get saved when you exit from the medications window. In other words, you can't have one person input the Pending Medications, forward the chart to another person who can re-open this and see which medications are pending to be prescribed.
Are we missing something???
Thanks,
S.K.
