I've opened up some patient charts go to prescribing and there are some with a number of meds listed kind of greyed out and it doesn't ask me to map them so I just go ahead and write whatever rx I was going to write and it goes through apparently not requiring the all meds must be mapped edict prior to writing a new rx
Originally Posted by ChrisFNP
koby, those are probably meds that need to be "codify" adjusted. See if you can codify anything that is in grey and italicized. Those are iikely the Free Text meds you did during mapping.
The way I understand it, an uncodified prescription is italicized (whether pre- or post-V12). Hopefully this is what koby means by "kind of greyed out". It can be a legit prescription but cannot be e-prescribed (because the words are not in the formulary database). If all the other patient's meds are codified though, this will not trigger a need for mapping so you can just go ahead and eRx the others. (Agreeing with Chris here).
Originally Posted by ChrisFNP
if you free text and then get an electronic refill for that medication it will not be sent. This is, so far, the only problem I have seen with freely using Free Text mapping.
A problem, perhaps, but an expected outcome. The prescription is not in the database so it cannot be sent. You either codify it early when you switch to V12, or later, when you need to refill it. In other words, you didn't lose anything by free texting it.
