It would be ideal if when selecting a medication that you want to auto-expire, it would remove itself from the active medications and be automatically placed under the recently active medication list. This is specifically useful for courses of antibiotics and other short-term medications where you do not want them to appear in the active list once they are completed. Also, any expired medications are still pulled onto letters, forms, etc, which should not be displayed. The discontinuing of medications process is tedious, especially when patients are on many medications.
From Dr Holmes:
"I agree totally, when you chose Short term medication for X days, auto expire is automatically ticked off. You would think that would mean it auto expires after the say 7 days, but NO, I am told you need to go and chose an expiry date when you prescribe which is totally inefficient. I just complained again about this and was told to go to Idea Space. I have been to many conferences over the years and my understanding when this change happened was that it was supposed to auto expire. Now we are told it is a safety issue - as the reason it does not auto expire.
It takes a lot of work to clean up the medication list and short term antibiotics should not need to be manually expired in the future. "
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