As a nephrologist, I take care of patients where almost all labs are "abnormal", and where a compliant patient's pill count typically is 20 or more. Among the challenges for patients with CKD not yet requiring dialysis is hypertension medication management.
My ideal EMR would give me one-click or just-a-few-clicks access to a chronological list of a patient's medications, not just current meds, and the list would be not just those prescribed by me, but all those I believe the patient to be taking. I would be able to look at a table (dates along the top, med names along the left column) and see, over time, when meds were added and deleted, when dosages were changed, and possibly other goodies such as a link to explanation of why an individual medication was stopped (allergy, ineffective, cost, etc.)
Can Amazing Charts do that?
Also, is there an easy way to hand a patient an updated "current meds list" as he walks out of the office?
Thanks again
Jim Robertson
