Let me weigh-in on a couple of these.
1. Bert, I entirely agree that it would be helpful to simplify the "inactivation" process for medications.
Many prescriptions are
intended to be short term and shouldn't even require removal (e.g when I write for a bowel prep). Wendell's idea of a click-box makes sense; it might even make sense to have the option to click it when you write the prescription, so inactivation occurs when you next open the chart. Whatever makes for the fewest needless clicks...
Does AC have complete control over that "page" of the EMR, or does Surescripts or some other entity mandate certain verbiage or appearance there?
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.
This might be nice. You can see each individual medication with this information, but not all at the same time.
In your example, before suggesting Concerta, you would go to the list of "All" medications, see that Concerta was on the "inactive" list, and hit "History" which would tell you when you prescribed it and why you inactivated it.
