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The Medication tab stores the patient's medication history.

IMPORTANT: Please contact us if a medication is not in our database by either calling 1-866-SynaMed or e-mailing support@synamed.com.

Functional Items Description
Create Prescription You can create a prescription using this option for the selected physician that is displayed at the upper right hand corner for the patient you are working on.
Add Pre-Existing Med Use this option to add medications to the patient's medication history if the patient has active medications prior to existing in SynaMed.
Search Possible Medications Through the inputs in ROS, PMH and Physical Exam, SynaMed's AI will find possible medications for the patient's condition.
Print Prescriptions To print a prescription, click on the check box to the left of the medication name. A window will pop up prompting for dosage and refill. Do the same for all medications you want prescribed to the patient. click Print Prescription when finished selecting. To change the prescription page orientation, go to [ Physician's Profile ]. You must be a physician to change the orientation.
Discontinue To discontinue a patient's medication, select this option to the right of the medication row. If you have done this by accident, you can recreate the prescription by selecting Create Prescription again.

NOTE: Office visit information is saved every time you move onto a new tab or by clicking "Save and Go To Patient Menu". You may experience multiple listings of the same visit for a day. Select the session that you might have digressed from earlier and continue with that session. All other sessions for that day can be ignored or marked for deletion. Please exercise precaution when deleting office visit(s).

FAQ:

Can I print out a list of active meds for the patient?

You can just print that part of the note.

When prescribing drugs: if patient has liver disease, and Tylenol is prescribed will any warnings appear?

Yes, there will be a warning.  However, Tylenol and barbiturates might not give warnings.  Click on liver conditions on top of the medication tab, and when trying to prescribe Tylenol a warning will appear.

Is it possible to fit multiple medications in 1 prescription?

Currently, only one medication is allowed per quarter page. 

Where can I find the formulary (for medications)?

To access the formulary either click on the name of the medicine on the medication list of the patient (in the medication section of the office note) or when you create a Rx for a patient click on check formulary at the bottom of the page.  The following will appear on your screen:

 

Formulary Check

Formulary: this will tell you the formulary of the insurance plan

Drug: Vioxx

Status: information on whether or not the drug is supported: ie: generic is preferred,  drug is supported but non preferred, etc

Supported Versions: either the brand name or the generic

Dosage information, etc.

 

What kind of information will the check formulary show?

It shows whether a given medication is supported by the patient's insurance's formulary or not.  

What information is required for check formulary? (besides patient's insurance information)

As long as that insurance is linked to a formulary in the system, that is all that's needed currently. 

Does this go through a clearinghouse or does SynaMed maintain its network of insurances for check formulary?

Currently we maintain our network of insurances for check formulary although we are in talks to link up to a formulary clearinghouse as well. 

For eRx: how can the pharmacy authenticate e-prescriptions? How do they know that these prescriptions come from physicians without their actual signature?

The doctor has to click the submit button which is protected by password, and if someone does it on behalf of the doctor (if he delegates permission), the name of that person is sent to the pharmacist as well.

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