Peggy:
When you double-click in the "Current Medication" field of the progress note, the Prescription Writer opens. Any medications you add at that time will show up under "Current Medications", but will not show up in the "Plan" portion of the progress note.
HOWEVER -
When you return to the program, every medication that was contained in the "Active Medication" field of the Prescription Writer will now be listed under "Current Medications".
This is not a bug. This is how you are supposed to update the "Current Medication" list in Amazing Charts.
No newly-prescribed medication should ever appear in the "Current Medication" field UNLESS you double-click on that field.
The program's doing what it's supposed to do. There are a couple of ways to deal with this.
EXAMPLE: If you prescribe Bactrim for a patient, and then you realize that you forgot to add Lipitor as a chronic medication, you only have a couple of options:
1. Double-click on "Current Medications", add Lipitor, close the Prescription Writer, and manually delete Bactrim from the "Current Medication" list.
Or, if you are very forward-looking and efficient, you could:
2. Double-click on "Current Medications", add Lipitor, set Bactrim as "Inactive" (reason: patient completed), and close the Prescription Writer.
Option "2" is the better solution, because it will not only keep Bactrim from appearing in the "Current Medication" list of this note, it will also keep it from appearing the "Current Medication" list of future encounters.
