QHR Product Ideas

Currently when you add a new medication you can choose the date it is to be started (which may be different than the day the prescription was written). However, this date is not reflected as the start date in the Instructions tab of the new medication window, nor as the start date in the Medications tab in the main EMR window. I have contacted QHR and was told that the start date in the two latter situations actually means the day 'the medication was created' which is the day the prescription was written. There is already a separate 'written' date in the new medication window so in effect, they have two different date names representing the same date. I believe that care can be compromised by the inability to find/display the actual day a patient was instructed to start a medication--it isn't displayed as the start date in the medications tab (the date there is actually the day the prescription was written). If you look over at the duration column, the actual start date is contained within the instructions there, which is not a place where one would intuitively look for that information. I would suggest that wherever the name 'Start Date' is used, it should mean the day that the patient was instructed to start taking the medication. This means that when you choose that date when creating a new prescription in the Prescription Dosage pop-up box, that date should automatically populate the Start Date in the Instructions tab, and the Start Date in the Medications Tab of the EMR. If it is helpful for clinicians to also have a column in the Medications tab for the Written Date, that would be fine too.