Medication Favorites - ideas

Discussion in 'Feature: Requests and Planning' started by Jason, Apr 17, 2008.

  1. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    I'd like more than 9 meds with super easy access.

    To get to the Medication Favorites, you likely needed to use the mouse (in my mockup I put a little [F] button )

    So I'd have a 2 click rule .... for getting to lots of medications easily.

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  2. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    Another challenge is how to have multiple doses for a medication without clogging up the UI and without resorting to typing in the Name: textbox.
  3. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    You have to search first ... one letter might be enough to bring up your favorite drug.

    If I have 100 fav drugs I don't want to see them all!

  4. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    Oh, but I want SO much more.

    :)

    Making Medication prescribing a thing of easy beauty with the Synapse Ultra Fast GUI should be a high priority.

  5. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    :)

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  6. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    One issue with this will be that the Tabs and the Medications will take some time to setup for the enduser prescriber.


    However, this is very short term thinking. The time saved by having quick access to a large number of your commonly RX'd meds is a huge boon. The number of times you have to prescribe a medication a month is ALOT !.



  7. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    Medication Tables.

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  8. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    Another view of the MEDS Table.

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  9. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    Indices are automatically created on all primary keys,

  10. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    I spend most of my time doing repeats .. not prescribing new drugs.

    I might consider automatically adding drugs to the favourites as they are renewed ....
  11. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    Should favourites be shared ?

    So, if I change the orders for a shared favourite, then others who have the same favourite might be annoyed?

  12. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    Not for now I say.
  13. Jerry

    Jerry Administrator Staff Member

    Jason,

    I like your ideas with the multi-function favorites GUI with tabs for Dx groupings, but that's maybe a little more elaborate than I need. The favorites list is pretty cool now, but I agree that having more than 9 fav's and multiple doses for a certain drug would do it just fine, at least for me. Could then type in, say, !amox and get my 3-4 favorite doses of amoxicillin tablets and amox susp. If I need a different sig, can quickly type it in as usual. I made a sort of similar thing in Access years ago and my criticism of it was that if I made a medication favorite with more than about 4-6 doses or so, it just got too unwieldy. I might just as well have looked up the drug and typed in the dose as it would have been faster than scrolling through a list of 15 sigs or so to find the favorite dose I was looking for.
  14. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    Alex

    If you add Amoxycillin more than once with different doses, and search on !Amox, you will see all those different doses.

    And in my latest version, if there is only one match, then that gets used automatically - with no gui appearing.



  15. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    I personally am of the belief that more is less ... that is too much choice leads to paralysis.

    But one of the benefits might be that Jason's popup then allows you to say which drug is for which disease. So, instead of having multiple tabs with disease classifications, you might bring up the patient's diagnoses instead. But this then implies we have to know which system a disease belongs to ... which means each disease needs to have that ICD9/10 etc allocated, and not blank. And a diagnosis has to be made before a Rx is done.

    Perhaps too restrictive for my workflow.





  16. Jerry

    Jerry Administrator Staff Member

    Apologies...I briefly tried the new Med Favorites function and added 2 different doses for amox. It didn't refresh immediately. I just tried it again and I see my Med Fav list does indeed have both doses now. Is the Med Fav list capable of unlimited drugs now, or just 9? I agree, in my previous trials "less is more"....just a limited number of Rx fav's with a limited number of doses made it really fast, which is the purpose of a fav list anyway.
  17. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    It's a list ... so you can scroll. But I presume the 9 Jason is referring to are the ones he can see without scrolling.

    My version you can maximize the window so that you can see more .. but I don't want to see more!

    The Linux version has the unfixed bug about not saving the favorites all the time.

    Jason wants a favorites list for all the conditions he treats ... but I think it's easier to just type a couple of letters to filter. People who use tablets don't like to do keyboard entry because often they don't have keyboards!!

  18. Jerry

    Jerry Administrator Staff Member

    Medication Favorites is very cool function... I have wanted such a thing for years. I will put it to the test for the next two days in urgent care and see how it goes, and I'm forewarned in the Linux version (so far) that it's best to not create a favorite until it's ready to be used.
  19. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    Until I fix it, you could create the favorites using the windows version and copy the favorites.r file to the linux one.

  20. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

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    The main purpose of this proposal was to avoid using the keyboard. Moving your hands from the mouse to the keyboard is time consuming. I also wanted to avoid scrollbars (time consuming to scroll). The goal wasn't to put meds in Disease categories, the goal was to be able to have quick click access to more than 1 screen) or medications.
    I have the drug categories as tabs, but buttons would probably have been the more accurate depiction as I just wanted to be able to show a different list of drugs based on clicking something.


    First off, if you wanted to just use the default 20 on the first tab, then ... how complicated is that ?
    The number 1 priority on this section of the EMR is speed. I really can't see much complexity really. I think over time you'd know exactly what tab you are looking for and the likely location on that list where the drug is. I would be expecting lightning fast clicking here showing of the speedy GUI. Certainly I have have many more medication to RX than specialists.



    I agree too restrictive. Is the SSRI for depression or recalcitrant PMS ? I dont really want a list of drugs based on disease, the multi tabs were for speed. Putting the drugs under a tab with a disease name was more for just logical categorization. Another doc might want to just call them Tab1 Tab2 and they would just memorize which drugs are in each area.

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