Bert, actually I HAVE implemented are you sure you have the right patient? dialog/ workflow in an electronic documentation program I created for use at our community hospital. Folks were loading and doing a note on the wrong patient, and sending that note to the Electronic Record (wrong patient).
I believe it should be hard not easy to send a message on the wrong patient.
There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between the various controls on the main screen, such that you can be responding to a message that is not attached to the patient you see highlighted.

I may be misstating what is happening (out of ignorance, not animosity), hence my "opinion" qualifier.


Roger
(Nephrology)
Do the right thing. The rest doesn?t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. ? --Marcus Aurelius --