Roy, I thought you had overhauled your personal database. Why did you go back to the default database? Was there not enough frustration in your life?
The medication database definitely needs a major overhaul. Anybody who uses it should keep their eyes open for misspellings and incorrect dosages.
Jon uses a free medication database from the FDA in order to keep costs down. You would think the FDA would offer a better database, but there you go. I guess that's why it's free.
As far as the allergies go, it would be nice to have an automatic allergy-checker. There are EMRs that offer them, but they cost $5000-10,000 per user, at least.
For $995, this is what you get: entering an allergy causes a red warning box to appear in the prescription writer field. This is a step up from paper charts that I have not stopped appreciating yet.
It is true that you can still write for a prescription the patient is allergic to; I have done it myself. Yet I can hardly fault Amazing Charts because I don't look at the red box. Maybe Jon could make it flash in an annoying way....
Alan, there is an Inactive Medication section of the Prescripton Writer where you could keep records of past ineffective medications, along with a brief explanation about why you placed it there.
