Brian,
Yes a great idea. Now guys and gals, I'm not very database savvy in terms of how they work at the nuts and bolts level. Is it possible to sort of do just what Brian suggests here, all while allowing Jon and AC to send us a "New and Updated" Med file that goes "somewhere else" sort of as a default database to start with? Then perhaps the moment the provider writes their first Rx, the program then creates this "New" Personal folder for Doc-X, that builds and grows in the fashion already described by you folks. Much like the "Imported Items" folder, the first time one imports something to the patient's chart their personal imported items folder is started. So now we do have the New Meds to choose from and each provider has their own personal Rx folder that grows and evolves as they use and create it?
This way Jon is sort of covered as he has supplied us with the lastest and newest Meds as he has been doing all along; we users get them and don't miss out on knowing that they are there (if one cares to read thru them, what a pain)and they are there to use if we do need them from time to time; but now we still have this "safe" from the updates personalised Rx folder that each doc simply creates on his or her own as they go in just the fashion Brian laid out. The loss of this personalised folder that Roy creates and drives him so nuts is understandable. How frustrating it is to have hours of good work vanish? Now we could all have both for all the good reasons to have both....
Lastly, I as a PM don't write Rx's all day like most of you, but Nancy was just showing me that AC does already sort of do this as she types in something. So althought she has never written Rx A for this patient, she has for someone else and so as she types the letters it gives her the options she used previously. So is this feature already "Half" there and will this impede or assist in fishishing the job and making it even better? Sounds like my Dr-X's personal Rx history folder might already be there in some form or another.
Someone should put this in the Notify Vinny of Suggestions thread.
Paul
