Well, this am things were going really bad.....so we shut off the drug interactions. Problem solved. I have had the drug interactions on since I started eprescribing and writing scripts in AC over two years ago. I didn't have the problem before. I have done my 90 days and can attest to it so we just turned the interactions off. No slowing ...the rest of the day went very well with prescription writer and eprescribing and everything else.
This is phase 1 of meaningful use. Phase two is not necessarily going to happen next year. I think all these hiccups will need resolution before any government organization expects us to function like this for 12 months. I don't think these problems are unique to AC and I don't think they are AC problems.
Seems to me like this is all about the interactions. Has anyone actually had an interaction show up that they weren't already aware of??? Maybe midlevels??? It is bogus. It is just like all the old phone calls from the pharmacy. The no [censored] sherlock stuff that we are already aware of. Maybe these are handy reminders to some but to me, they are a waste of time. I have used epocrates or other drug info for years and years and years and have looked this stuff up already so many times. I am sometimes wondering why some interactions are not coming up.
We will figure out this problem when our busy season passes. I am very glad that I started doing the MU stuff July 15th. Upgraded to version 10 once I got green light and I have my numbers now so I'll just forget the interactions til we get a fix for it.
