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We are a pediatric facility. Our physicians often refer patients to a very large multi-specialty facility which does not use Centricity. When external specialists prescribe medications to our patients, how should we accurately document that prescriber in Centricity? Our physicians do not want to be considered the prescriber because the medications are sometimes outside of their scope of practice. However, when attempting to update the Medication list in Centricity, they are unable to accurately list the true prescriber. The medication tab reflects that our physician both authorized and signed. We are at the onset of e-scribing and are concerned that the above issue will make identifiying the correct prescriber difficult as well.
Thank you,
Laura Albus
Milton Hershey School
Posted : January 10, 2017 12:45 am
We have created a provider in our system called Other Provider. You set that fake provider up in Centricity just like you do your own providers and then when you enter the patient's med list by other providers you will use Other provider and historical as the inputted info. It would then be understood among your providers that that medication is ordered and hopefully managed by another provider not in your practice. Of course you can call that provider any name you want to create. Hope that helps
Posted : January 10, 2017 2:47 am
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Thank you so much. We had been doing something similar with creating a fake provider, but wanted to be sure that was an acceptable practice especially from an auditing standpoint.
Posted : January 10, 2017 5:23 am
I don't know why it would not be acceptable as you can not add the outside provider to your responsible provider list for a multitude of reasons. I would document somewhere that this is your workflow and then when audited you have that documentation to use for back up. Also it will be obvious that your provider did not order that medication as there will be no electronic trail in CPS/EMR to note writing a prescription for tha tmedication for that patient by your provider.
Posted : January 10, 2017 6:09 am
