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As a nephrologist, I take care of patients where almost all labs are "abnormal", and where a compliant patient's pill count typically is 20 or more. Among the challenges for patients with CKD not yet requiring dialysis is hypertension medication management.
My ideal EMR would give me one-click or just-a-few-clicks access to a chronological list of a patient's medications, not just current meds, and the list would be not just those prescribed by me, but all those I believe the patient to be taking. I would be able to look at a table (dates along the top, med names along the left column) and see, over time, when meds were added and deleted, when dosages were changed, and possibly other goodies such as a link to explanation of why an individual medication was stopped (allergy, ineffective, cost, etc.)
Can Amazing Charts do that?
Also, is there an easy way to hand a patient an updated "current meds list" as he walks out of the office?
Thanks again
Jim Robertson
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The med list in AC is what you make it to be. If you enter in all of the meds a patient is taking, there is an area for you to list who prescribed the medication. There is also a place to note why a medication was stopped. Click on the left side of the encounter note where it says "Current Meds" and those options will be seen. When a medicine is inactivated, you have to note why...allergic, ineffective, changed dose and so on. When you click on the "Write Scripts" or "Refill" icons, it will bring up a list of the active meds. You can click the drop-down feature and see just the inactive or all meds. You can hover over one and see when it was last prescribed or you can click on one and see why it was discontinued.
To print the meds for a patient, go to the Summary Tab and you will see the current meds listed. Click on "Print".
Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC
"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "
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The med list in AC is what you make it to be. If you enter in all of the meds a patient is taking, there is an area for you to list who prescribed the medication. There is also a place to note why a medication was stopped. Click on the left side of the encounter note where it says "Current Meds" and those options will be seen. When a medicine is inactivated, you have to note why...allergic, ineffective, changed dose and so on. When you click on the "Write Scripts" or "Refill" icons, it will bring up a list of the active meds. You can click the drop-down feature and see just the inactive or all meds. You can hover over one and see when it was last prescribed or you can click on one and see why it was discontinued.
To print the meds for a patient, go to the Summary Tab and you will see the current meds listed. Click on "Print". Thanks, Leslie. I'll explore that. It sounds as though AC will easily meet my needs here.
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Srnephdoc,
I also am evaluating AC for a Neph group, and had not thought of all of the questions you asked.
Ditto the number of mess and multiple docs rxing them.
Hope EDI with Rx data from PBM through a RHIO can help.
Roger
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Do the right thing. The rest doesn?t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. ? --Marcus Aurelius --
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