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First, my biggest pet peeve and it falls under Jon S's reduce needless clicks. I estimate at least five hours of my life have gone by due to this.

To inactivate a medication in the med list in the script writer, you have two ways to do it. You can right-click and choose inactivate. Or you can click on the button (circled in green). Both give you the "Reason for inactivating" window. I would say I write a reason less than 10% of the time. Things like antibiotics, eye drops, Nystatin cream are things I don't need to document. I don't need "Diaper rash cleared up." But, for something like Seroquel, I do want to write "Ineffective" or "Increased cholesterol." Since we need it sometimes and sometimes not, why not make it so that right clicking does not give the option and clicking on the button which would say "Inactivate with reason."

While we are here, I know that I can click on show the inactive medications or show all, but it would be really helpful to click on a button and have a table of the active and inactive medications side by side with the reason inactivated. It is not helpful to have 15 total meds bunched together or just switching back and forth. It is embarrassing to say, let's try Concerta, and have the parent say, "We tried that six months ago."



By the way, a little known fact: Everyone knows how to inactivate a medication, but there are some good options you may not be aware of when you right-click on a med. One is you can Remove it altogether. So, if you prescribe Ativan and you meant Atarax, you can remove it very quickly. Inactivating it keeps in in that list when it really should be as though you never prescribed it. You can Re-Transmit or Re-Print, which is very helpful.