One tip about it. If you have a patient with a lot of meds, say 10. And, they have a refill on the New Crop site. You go to the site and see they have refills. You have to, as you probably know, close the site (maybe you can keep it open -- Steven?), but you do have to go back to that patient's chart. Now, you can bet that out of those 10 meds, at least two or three are going to have a PRN, QS, 60 mL, 30 thirty, 4 ounces. Any med that has entries (especially in the dispense field) that would keep you from ePrescribing it, will also keep you from being able to access the New Crop screen from that patient's chart by using the button in the top left-hand corner.
If you try to use that button, you will probably get an error message listing three, four or five meds and their problem. So, the first med, will say that the mLs is the problem, the second PRN, etc. That takes way too long.
You are much off just clicking on the top med in the script writer and loading it into the window. Glance at the dispense field and the refills. If they are clean, then click on Prepare Script and leave it in the Pending Medications field. Do that with every medication, correcting those that need correcting. Remember if it says 45 mL, you can just back space over the mLs, but as Wendell reminded everyone at the conference, be careful about leaving a space. It tend to just quickly highlight the whole field and replace it with 45. Some, like Steve, just use a 0. Glance at the dispense field. It has to be a number. Fix it if you have to, then move the medication into the Pending Field. Do this with all of the medications. You can do the 10 meds in less than a minute. Don't forget to then click on prescribe. Don't send them, just click on Prescribe, the choose Close. Now all of them will be perfect, and you won't have this issue again. Sure, the downside, it they will all look as though they were prescribed that day, but you still have the history.
The other way, you are looking at the meds that have to be fixed from the grey screen with the 4 font. After fixing those meds, you have to go back to the Manage Via New Crop Screen under ePrescribing in the top left corner to get the 4 font grey window again. This is because you can't do anything to a medication in the medication list without clicking OK and closing that window. So, you either have to go back and forth or have a good memory.
Try it both ways.
