Now that I have actual hands-on experience with medication mapping, I thought I would mention a couple of points. To a large extent this summarizes things that Chris and others have pointed out.

Mapping of meds and allergies in V12 could be easier... I am done trying to understand/explain why we have to do it. Also done scratching my head about why the process is harder than it needs to be (yeah, its annoying for hundreds of docs and providers to waste hours laboring over things that should have been matched for us). This post is simply to focus on getting through it as fast as possible.

1. Watch the AC video on mapping. Some of the process is changed, but 7 minutes watching is time well spent.

2. As noted in posts above, you can upgrade within a chart or by going into Admin options. The latter is tempting; we started with 3000 meds to map, and it helps me to see that number go down as I clear them in the Admin section. Unless you want to spend a bunch of hours upfront, you will probably use a hybrid process and use the second method as well, and map within an individual patient's chart. This is what you must do - for each patient- to be able to prescribe for that particular patient.

3. Remember this is a two part process; mapping and migrating. After you map the meds, you still cannot eprescribe until you migrate them with the button at the bottom.

4. A significant improvement made after the video came out is that when you do a bunch of meds in the Admin options area, you can migrate that group of meds and go back to work seeing patients or doing other work in the program.

5. A point discovered, I think by Chris, is a big time and click-saver. When you select the mapped version on the right column, double click it and that maps it. (Instead of clicking it once, then moving to the "map" button, clicking, and coming back to the next medication). This also applies to free texting; double click the "free text'" and there is no need to type the free text- it is put in automatically.

6. I would strongly suggest using "free text" rather freely. If you are agonizing over which choice to map to, use free text. If it is a med you rarely if ever use, feel free to free text. I know my situation is a bit different as a specialist, but all the herbals, weird combination vitamins, diabetes supplies or anything else that I rarely if ever prescribe - free text them. Feel free to come at me with disadvantages to doing this that I have not considered.

Jon
GI
Baltimore

Reduce needless clicks!