Prescriptions seems to be very popular among many people. This is due to the great use of the product. Prescriptions is a program used to store data about the medications taken.
Basically, a user enters each prescribed medication as separate records. For instance, if you are taking five different medications, you enter each medication separate. Information is added as to what the doctor prescribed the medication to YOU, not what it normally treats.
It is sad to think of the massive amount of people taking many different types of medication everyday and not knowing half of what the medication is doing to them.
We all know that just because a doctor prescribes a particular medicine, this medicine could be used to treat all sorts of other ailments. This means that even though the doctor prescribed it to you for infection, it may be prescribed for a totally different purpose for someone else.
Prescriptions was created to make an attempt at the user to learn and understand what medication they are taking and if by taking this medication, could it have an impact or have adverse effects when combined with other medications.
Prescriptions is made up of four (4) forms, each an application in itself, yet a powerful database when combined. The purpose of this post is to introduce you to the many screen of prescriptions and give you a better idea on how to best us the application.
Prescriptions works in conjunction with the following forms and each form will be covered on a different post:
- Doctors: Stores all doctors or medical professional you visit. This is like a little doctor directory, complete with where that doctor works, their telephone number and what medication they are prescribing to you.
- Pharmacy: Store all the locations that provide your medication. For instance, the hospital may be a place where you get some of your medication, only because the medicine is easier to get there. But you also use the local CVS Pharmacy because of the $4.00 prescription costs. This become two separate records containing information solely about that location.
- Journal: The journal is like a little diary. This is where a user enters information as to the effects the medication is having on them. We all know the combination of different medicine combine with different foods, etc. can change how a person feels. The Journal is where this information is added. This little journal comes in handy when you visit the doctor because you now have a log and you can better explain your symptoms to the doctor.
I have provided a very simplistic explanation of each of these forms, yet the forms are by far simplistic as you shall see. Let’s go on to the main page of prescriptions.
When opened, Prescription immediately displays the last record entered. You will note I have made the display easy to read and to display the most pertinent information.
Prescriptions takes advantage of the touch screen, and even though non-touch devices may be able to install the application, navigation and modification of records may be a problem.
The main display is broken into three (3) major sections that display the information about the prescription. The top portion lists the current record, who prescribed it, and when the medicine expires.
The red area actually changes information depending if you marked the medication as being used or not. In this case you are not using the medication, therefore you see the red bar. If you are using the medication, then you will see how many refills you are authorized and when the next date to re-order is.
The third area shows the location that you normally go to purchase or get your medication.You will note that there are several bits of useful information here: the address of this location, the telephone number, and the RX number of the medication.
The lower part of the screen provides the functional buttons. For the most part, these buttons play the same role on all forms of Prescriptions. This makes it easy so that when you see the green plus button, it means add on every form.
The clock looking button is the alarm. pressing this button and Prescriptions will either show you the current alarm set for that prescription or it will ask if you would like to set the alarm. Selecting yes will display the alarm screen where the user can enter a date and time to be alerted.
It is very simple to set an alarm. A user selects the date field and a calendar appears where the date and time is chosen. The user can either select the Clear button to end the alarm or remove the setting or press Set to activate the alarm and store the new settings.
As depicted on this screen when the alarm is activated, there are three options.Selecting View will take you to that particular record, no matter where you are in the application. Selecting cancel does just that. The alarm is cancelled and is no longer active. Selecting Defer and prescriptions will alert you again in an hour. This is like hitting the snooze button. This is NOT settable.
Note: This alarm activates at a user determined date only if the application prescriptions is running. The user does not have to be using Prescriptions, merely, the program has to be open and can just be in the background.
As I had mentioned earlier, Prescriptions is meant to assist the user understand and know why they are taking a particular medication. To vie this screen, just select the books like button. This screen is broken into three sections and provides the user a location to add specifics about the medicine.
The first field, Purpose Of Taking Medication is the reason YOU are taking the medication. NOT what it is normally prescribed for. It is important to know why you are prescribed this medication. You can also list what other uses it has, but i would enter this AFTER the reason.
How To take The medicine is straight forward. Every medication prescribed should have a label or the doctor should have provided you with how to take the medication. I believe you enter this as you would understand. For instance, you medicine is labeled: Two every 8 hours. You can enter as simplistic or as elaborate as you want:
Take two Singulair tablets ever eight hours
2ea. every 8hrs.
Take 2 each every 8 hours
Entering side effects is important. You want to know what know what to expect, and this could be used later in your journal when you visit the doctor.
As the database grows larger, Prescriptions allows you to display medications prescribed by a particular doctor.
The dropdown box contains every doctor you have added in the database. By selcting a doctor, a list of all medication tied to that doctor will appear.
Another cool feature is if you double-click any one of those medicines displayed, Prescriptions will move and display that record.
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