How do I reconcile medications in DrFirst?
Medication reconciliation is the process of keeping an up-to-date, accurate list of what medications your patient is taking. DrFirst allows you to do this:
- In bulk - what a time-saver!
- Manually, one-by-one
- After you have just sent in a prescription
Bulk reconciliation
Here's a video of the first few steps:
And voilĂ ! You have an up-to-date list of active meds. Note the higher the number of medications you've stopped, the longer DrFirst will take to update. In cases with hundreds of medications, it could take 1-2 minutes. If in doubt after then, or if it appears "nothing happened," please simply refresh your screen and you will see the updates have been made.
Manual reconciliation - one at a time
Go into the specific rx you wish to stop, click the "Stop Medication" icon, then follow steps 6-7 above.
Automatic reconciliation after sending in an e-prescription
After sending a prescription, you will see a screen that asks you which medications should stay in your active list, and which you want to stop/move off your list. Click "Stop" of all the medications that you now want to make inactive.
NOTE: To prevent LONG "Existing Medication" lists, we recommend before sending any prescriptions that you perform a bulk reconciliation as described at the beginning of this article.
If you have any questions, please contact us.