It is a testament to the idiocy of EMR's (sorry, AC, and any friends I still have left there) that we are even talking about this.
We are literally talking about the time it takes to COPY the UOM from the Rx field - WHERE IT ALWAYS ALREADY APPEARS AFTER THE MEDICATION NAME AND DOSE - into the UOM field.
Why? Because some dolt somewhere says we should. And some other person hasn't bothered to fix the issue.
Is it hard to do this mindless copying? No. It takes only a couple of seconds.
Except that thousands of us are wasting those seconds, dozens of times a day.
It is infuriating! It is literally the opposite of my longstanding motto, "Reduce needless clicks".
Anyway... the process of putting in the UOM efficiently involves two hands. You can't easily do it with one.
I tab to the field, type "t" with my left hand and with my right hand on the mouse, hit the down arrow and select tablet and let go.
That works quickly for me, but yeah, it pisses me off anytime I let myself think about it.
Last edited by JBS; 01/05/2022 5:48 PM.
