[Bert said: "Or is Brian and everyone talking about a medication autopopulating the script writer portion of the writer? So that when you type Cef....then Cefzil suspension 250 mg/5mL, 1 tsp po bid for ten days, Disp QS and no refils. This while it would be helpful, would be less like a database, as if you change the strength to 125 mg/5mL, then it would be saved, but the would it then be the medication brought up?"]
This is not what I was talking about. I was talking about a custom database, replacing or parallel to the AmazingMeds database.
However, when you brought this up, it got me thinking, and what I would really like is this:
When I start to type a medication into the prescription writer, I would like it to autopopulate from my *custom* database. These are assumed to be my favorite medications, spelled correctly, in the forms that I most often use.
So, this is how it would work: I open the prescription writer, and start to type in Amoxil. Fourteen different Amoxils come up, including chewables, liquid forms that I don't write for, and a few misspelled forms. Ah, I realize I'm in Amazing Meds. I click on MyMeds or whatever and the little circle fills in black, just like when I change from "All Patients" to "Active Patients" in the demographic page.
Ah, this is better! Now typing in the letters "Amox" causes only two kinds of Amoxil to pop up: tablets and elixir. Why? Because the first time I wrote for them, I brought them up from AmazingMeds, picked the form I liked, clicked "Add" and they went into my personal database.
Now, I click on Amoxil tablets, and 500mg and 875mg tablets pop up. Why? Because I only entered those two strengths. Why? Because that's the only strengths I write for, I write for them all the time, and I know the local pharmacies have them. If I ever want or need another strength or form, I can look it up in AmazingMeds and add it to my custom database.
Or, if we use the autopopulation feature that Bert was talking about, I start typing Amox... and it autopopulates from my custom meds! From what I have already approved to be good, not from what I just happened to have typed that day. That way, I don't have to worry about misspelled meds from other doctors coming up.
Hmmm...as I was typing, I thought of another possible advantage to this kind of set-up: if you're working with P.A.'s or N.P.'s, it would allow you to create some parameters as well. The custom database might represent a "safe zone", a kind of a personal formulary of agreed-upon meds.
Well, I've been typing a lot over the past few days and my hands are beginning to cramp, so I will sign off again. Thanks to everyone for the great feedback.
Brian
