Medication Dispense: Row-per-Order/Medication Request vs "Row-Per-Prescription"

[ibacher (Ian Bacher)]

@mogoodrich

looking into it, I think the encounter datetime of the underlying encounter is what we’d like to use as the date

Ah, yes, I think this was something I wasn’t too sure on. There is an authoredOn standard field for MedicationRequests that we could map to… something, but I wasn’t entirely clear on the meaning of “dateActivated” in the order model.

@mogoodrich

Would be great if you could review the ticket when you get a chance

Will do!

[mogoodrich (Mark Goodrich)]

Yeah, I was looking at “authored” as well… I would think that would most likely map to “date created”, but that’s more than an audit timestamp field than anything else.

[burke (Burke Mamlin)]

@mogoodrich

I just noticed as well that there was no date as it’s not currently implemented on MedicationRequest; looking into it, I think the encounter datetime of the underlying encounter is what we’d like to use as the date

The assumption was orders are always done within the context of an encounter, which occurs at a point in time. So, the orders would inherit the encounter_datetime.