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All that follows is my opinion... and it might be wrong.

My answer is that it doesn't make a big difference.

Lets say you prescribed a patient Synthroid pre-V12. If you map it to Levoxyl... or if you free text it, then there are two implications:
1. If you go back and look at that patient's meds, you will see that "Synthroid" is no longer on his list of active meds; It will either have italicized Synthroid if you free-texted or "levoxyl" there instead. AND Synthroid is added to the list of inactive meds.

2. The next time you want to eprescribe a thyroid supplement for that patient, you can write it either way (Synthroid or Levoxyl). BUT it will be quicker and easier to send Levoxyl if you mapped it to that because it is already in the list of active meds.

So.... in general, map to the version (brand or generic) you typically use to save a little time when renewing.

But it makes little difference, because with a couple clicks, you can activate the inactivated Synthroid, and re-prescribe it.

And to make it more of a coin-flip... keep in mind that if you map in the admin section, you are changing all the pts prescriptions at once. So if you sometimes prescribe brand, and sometimes generic, there is no way to decide which will be better to map to going forward.

It does not make sense to agonize over this, IMHO.



My thoughts on this later...