Here Is The Sort Of Thing That Makes Medicare Dispensing Information Pretty Useless Clinically.

Here is a little story which has both good news and the opposite. First the good news is that when I made my weekly visit to the NEHRS the system was actually up and apparently working. It all seemed to working just tickety boo but is, as always pretty slow and tedious. However there are two issues I noticed, one of which dramatically decreases the value of the system from a clinical perspective. Looking at my medication record I found these two entries (out of a total of 9 entries from 3 prescriptions - one of which is wrongly allocated to myself rather than my wife.) First we have this: Generic Name: OMEPRAZOLE Brand:  OMEPRAZOLE GENERICHEALTH Prescribed:  30-Jun-2012 Supplied:  01-Jul-2012 Form & Strength:  TABLET 20MG Code:  08333N Second we have this record. Generic Name:  OMEPRAZOLE Brand: ACIMAX TABLETS Prescribed:  05-May-2012 Supplied:  06-May-2012 Form & Strength: TABLET 20MG (AS MAGNESIUM) Code:...

This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.