DocM,
Like I said I ran this by Jon a long time ago. Like not too long after we got hooked in and started haunting this place. I used to really like being a beta and helping to design this great little product that we use some much each and every day.
Anyway, what Jon and I sort of came to understand was that while logged in as myself, a support staff person not a provider, but even other providers should be able to send these things back and forth. The idea was to enable the system to allow all users to create but not sign off on things, when combined with a new ablity to then forward what one creates sort of via the present inter-office email system, preferably with notes attached, or perhaps like real emails the email is what you see first but one can attach all sorts of things like documents or pics and other files, send these things back and forth around the office. When used in the inter-office email function we also have the drop downs with every staff user in the system so docs can even send back and forth among themselves too. But as the Rx ends up in provider 1's box, now she can sign off on it and make it an Rx with her name on it, and saved in the proper part of AC and in the chart. Better still, it is still an email with an attachment right, so now that provider can send it back on to any staff person of their choice.
So Nancy likes and signs off on a letter that I created that should have her name on it instead of mine, she can reply it back to me, so I can then print it, fax it, or address and stamp an envelope to get it out the door. Let me do the dirty work that I can do, she shouldn't be handling these kinds of tasks, that is what staff is for. I can't see patients and generate revenue, only she can do that, but I can certainly fax things, address and stamp envelopes and all this other stuff.
I personally set up my own account in AC as a full provider because I wanted to be able to mess with stuff in our false patients and others so I could take good care of AC properly, can't fix what I can't see or play with. But at the same time if by accident I created something in a patients chart, I wanted it to be seen as a mistake by the practice manager and not a real note, Rx or what have you by the doc. At some point creating full access accounts that can do almost anything but are seen as non-medical staff like myself, tech support, practice manager would make a lot of sense. But I added a title in the set-up so if I was to create an Rx by accident it does actually print with my name and the title below says, Practice Manager, so no DEA agent should ever get upset with it. It is obviously a false Rx and no Pharmacist in the right mind should even fill it.
Was fun thought, I sent a test fax to one of our local chain supermarket pharmacy, where I know some of the staff and I shop myself. I sent them an Rx for Viagara for our false patient James Bond. I can't remember if I sent it logged in as Nancy or not so her numbers would show, but they were almost fooled for a few moments. Then I called them and ask to speak with one of the ladies I know to ask her how it looked and was it acceptable to them. She and her staff got a real hoot out of it, they were passing it around laugh at the thought of James Bond needing such a thing, "Is this for real, is this really the guys name??" Anyway gotta run, have a great night y'all.
Paul
