This may be a minor example of the situation that I am pretty sure I've seen before where the message appears to get disconnected from the patient.
I brought the message up to view by clicking on the item in the messages list. The dotted arrow shows that the text of that message was being displayed in the message box.
I clicked orders, and created two orders for the patient and printed them out. I then clicked "save but not send" which usually puts the order text into the message box.
I then clicked orders again and got the dialog box as indicated. It says there is no patient associated with the message, however what is displayed is clearly a patient message. Hence the "disconnect"
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on the second image I have we clicked on patient message, then click reply, did the orders, clicked save but not send, came back to the message that attempted to cook an additional order and get the same error dialog box.
I was able to successfully send the message, and then retrieve it from my outbox, but got an error when attempting to save it to the patient's chart. And the original message remained in my own inbox (the one that appeared to get "disconnected" from the patient)

Without spending a lot of time trying to figure it out it appears that if I try to do anything other than order the lab and then immediately send off the message that I get the "not associated with a patient" error dialog


Roger
(Nephrology)
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