Re: [Health] Prescription Workflow Issues

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Chris !

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Christoph H. Larsen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks a lot, Luis.
>
> Question regarding the prescription workflow. If I prescribe a drug to a
> patient, it does - naturally - show in the list of prescriptions, but
> not in the list of medications in the Patient facility. Does this make
> sense???
Is done on purpose. The prescription process / order does not
necessarily means that the patient has takent the drug.
One example will be DOTS when dealing with Tuberculosis medication.

> Also, the prescription workflow seems a bit awkward: When I am dealing
> with a patient, I have to go to Prescriptions, re-select that patient,
> and select the pharmacy from the long list of all parties.
No. Use the related action (little curved green arrow on top). It will
take you directly to the prescription process from the patient form,
and it will automatically fill in the patient name.
This is useful for many other patient-related processe, like
laboratory, evaluations, ...

> Would it be possible to:
> (1) introduce a field "is_pharmacy" to select pharmacies more easily,
> ideally with the way to select a DEFAULT pharmacy on top of that?
Agree.
> (2) create a button within the patient facility to easily issue
> prescriptions for this specific patient (pre-selected, that is)?
Use the related action that already does that.
> (3) to add prescribed drugs automatically to the list of medication
> within the Patient facility?
It should not be a 1:1 relationship between prescription and medication.
> (4) to use "prn" in ADDITION to the existing table of frequencies?
> Presently, it is either "prn" or other frequencies, which is medically
> incorrect.
Polysemic conflict :-). In PRN in the prescription line tree field
means "print", and is not related to "Pro re nata" / "as needed" term.
I will write the whole word "print" in the tree view to avoid conflicts.

> I sent further suggestions last night.
> Also, in general terms, how can I select one record as default (e.g. for
> the above pharmacy issue) in generic terms?
We would use the system properties for the company.
>
> Thanks a lot, indeed!
>
Thank you for the feedback !

> Chris
>
> On 07/03/12 10:03, Luis Falcon wrote:
>> Follow-up Comment #4, bug #35462 (project health):
>>
>> Hi Chris
>>
>> In prescription, what you get is the prescribing doctor. For security 
>> reasons,
>> this is a read-only field that shows the UID of the doctor that logs into the
>> system.
>>
>> In the other fields, the doctor name is in the form of "Lastname, Firstname".
>>
>> Best
>> Luis
>>
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