What I am saying is that many of us may be able to get security pads FREE from various sources. This could save us a lot of money! Aren't all of us struggling to keep costs down?!?
BUT - in order to use them, we need a special prescription template that allows us to use pre-printed pads!
This is not hard to do!
The simplest approach would be to have one template, which prints all of our information in a fairly compact space, say 2.5 x 3 inches. This would give a lot of wiggle room for the printed material to clear all the stuff that is already printed on the pad.
- You would want to leave the practice header and the signature lines off, since they're already printed on the pad.
- The type might need to be small. As Wendell said, "So what?" It's still clearer than your average hand-written Rx.
- You would want to have a good amount of space after the line with patient's name and DOB, to give you room for adjustment to make their name fall on the pre-printed line.
- You would have to have a portrait and landscape version, to give people more flexibility.
But for this to work, the little twip-adjustor thingy has to work!
I wish we could design our own prescription templates. I used to work in graphic design. People could just fax me their prescription pad and I could design them a template. Sigh...
