Jerry could you let me know what medication popup features you are using ? - shortcuts ? - RxN ? - RxT ? - Notes ? - Route & Frequency ? Graham too ? Besides speed, what is on everyone's wish list ?
I use favs a lot. Since we have a pretty limited "urgent care formulary", I use favs for generating at least 90% of my Rx's. I use RxN for searches much more than RxT, and have pretty much ditched FDA unless (very uncommonly) I can't find it on the others. This is because of no RxCUI. I find RxT just a little confining for the way we commonly write here, but in time I will probably get used to it. I haven't used the new interaction function much yet so far because we don't tend to do much polypharmacy in urgent care. I appreciate that it's there, new and improved however. I don't really use notes at all. I thought at one time I would make a lot of use of "medication groups", like, say, "Zithromax Z-pack, Medrol Dosepack, and promethazine with codeine cough syrup", but in practice, I find favs so fast that medication groups are pretty unnecessary.
"Shortcut" or "Favorites" prescribing needs to be the preferred method of prescribing. Database lookup options should be available .... in popups - these methods should not interfere with the preferred method of RXing. - a mouse click to start this process is acceptable (as it should be a rare event). I know that Predicting Insurance Coverage is important in the US. I need to know how important it is. It seems like that shortcuts are less important in these situations. A better method might be searching their insurance list for drug categories like: PPI SSRI Benzo etc. Unknowns: Insurance companies must provide some data that could be imported and updated in Synapse ... is there some uniformity ? What are the top 5 insurance companies ? what do those data samples look like ? How could Synapse present this data to the provider ? Should this impact shortcuts ?
Hmm... insurance co. formulary checking would be cool. The pharmacies are all connected to formulary databases in real time. We fairly frequently get a call from the pharmacist...."Ah, not going through, try something else"...."Ok, let me run that one and see if it works".... We don't have access to those databases that I know of. If you use a static list on some insurance co. website, it's bound to be out of date fairly frequently, I think
