Hi Chris,
As for Bert's issue with the script writer, that is working as it should. There are two buttons you need to click for prescribing meds, "prepare" and "prescribe". The prepare button puts the med in the pending meds section. At this point the med is not officially prescribed yet. Once you hit that prescribe button, however, you are officially prescribing that medication. The following screen is just the delivery method for that medication (electronic, printed, or even no method if the medication was dispensed in house). Think of that prescribe button as a "sign off" button just for meds. Once you click it, you are making it official.
Thanks Mark, but I would have to disagree with that logic whether it says prescribe or not. If I hover over a medication in the med list and it says 0 days, it should mean it has been prescribed, i.e. SENT to pharmacy. The fact that it says "prescribe" as the second button does not show that it was prescribed. In fact, that button could say "taken to the pharmacy via Amazon and UPS) and that doesn't make it true." Clicking that button simply takes the med one step closer to being Sent or Prescribed. In fact, if you are reconciling medications and you change a med taking it to prepare will not save the med. You have to click on prescribe to do so. This actually causes problems for us I would estimate five or six times a week.
