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To acheive the escribe measure for Promoting Interoperability with PDMP, the physician must escribe a narcotic and access the PDMP. However, at our facility, the surgeon typically escribes their discharge medication prior to discharge (right after the procedure). If the patient is stay type 1 or 3, they are having to complete a discharge medication reconciliation PRIOR to escribing - but they are not yet ready to complete the med rec when they are escribing. Therefore, they just do not escribe - It would be beneficial for the med rec to be bypassed so that escribe can be completed prior to d/c from inpatient stay.
We just had a surgeon start new at our hospital, who came from a different hospital also using Evident...he hoped we had a better solution to this issue because they faced it where he came from, and we face it at ours as well. This is a problem. Some of the surgeons chose to escribe discharge medications from their office EMR before surgery to address this HOWEVER, if the surgery cancels, hopefully the patient has not picked up their narcotic order already.
I've had a couple of our physicians complain about this very thing.