There was a thread discussing this before. I fax prescriptions from my wireless tablet as I see patients. If I am doing a phoned in refill request, which I despise, I would like to have the preferred pharmacy on the prescription writer page. Until that happens, I've started adding the patients preferred pharmacy as the first prescription on the screen. I use a leading period to put it at the top of the MED LIST.
In Medication & Dose: ".Pharmacy Name" in the Sig: I put the Zip code. You could place the phone number, etc...
My related ranting:
I always write prescriptions at office visits that will cover the patients until their next visit. It is amazing how many people ignore their recommended follow ups and think I am simply the phone in medication refill service. I now will do seven days of medication, sorry you have to pay your full monthly copay, for those patients who decide that my medical recommendation on appropriate follow up for medical issues that involve prescriptions that I write is optional. If their cardiologist wants to give them eleven refills, and they skip follow up for a year, that's on them.
I expect that this will cut down on the unreasonable amount of time my staff and I spend every day (non billable) to address the concerns of this minority of patients.
Of course, we never put a patient at risk by withholding medications, but they don't have to know that.
