Its purpose is to provide a recorded history of drugs, medications, vitamins and supplements that you have taken, currently take, or plan to take. This history can be used when visiting with or discussing health issues with your physician, pharmacist or insurance company and may prove valuable while traveling away from home should an incident requiring medical attention occur.

 

Data Fields: There are 9 data fields available to you.

 

1: The first field can be used to categorize the regimen record. You might normally use this field to indicate whether the drug or supplement has been prescribed or not. This field is limited to 36 characters of information and is used as a section header in the Regimen report, thus brief phrases such as ‘Prescriptive’, ‘Non-Prescriptive’, ‘Experimental’ are most appropriately used in this field.

 

2: The second field can be used to record the generic or technical name of the drug or supplement, and related information. You are limited to 72 characters in this field.

 

3: If important, you can record the name of the manufacturer, supplier or your pharmacist in the second data field. This field is limited to 50 characters.

  

4: The fourth field can contain the dosage amount whenever the drug or supplement is taken. You are limited to 50 characters in this field.

 

5: Next, you may select or record the frequency on which you take or ingest the medication. You are limited to 50 characters in this field.

 

 

6 and 7: The first date field is normally used to record the date on which the medication was first taken and the second, the date on which you stopped taking the medication. If a dosage changes while you are taking the same medication, you can enter a termination date when you change dosage, and then open a new record with the same information and change it to reflect the new dosage.  

 

A date calendar is presented when you double-click in the date fields. Select the date you want by clicking on the day. The calendar will close and the date you selected will be entered for you. The ‘<<’ and ‘>>’ buttons on the calendar screen move the year forward and backward, while the ‘<’ and ‘>’ buttons move the month forward and backward.

 

8: The Description field can be used to contain any other relevant information. This may include the prescribing physician, the volume of medication on hand, references to literature about the medication, such as side-effects, or any other relevant information. There is no limit to the amount of information you can store in this field.

 

9: This data field is a hyperlink field that can be used to access a web-site relative to the medication, or to a document image for instructions, regarding side-effects, or whatever. You can paste the link or right-click the field to access a hyperlink dialog box.

 

10: The last data field is an attachment field that can be used to store images, photos, scanned documents or other objects that can be opened and viewed by a program on your computer. You may store as many objects as you require.  

 

There is also a check box that you can set ‘On’ if for some reason you do not want a record to print on any report. It is used solely to control whether a record is included on a report or not, so it can be used even temporarily to cause a record not to appear in a report. It is not re-set automatically however. It will have to be reset should you want the record to appear on a subsequent report.

 

Data Sequence: You can change the sequence by right-clicking in any data field and then selecting either an ascending or descending sequence, based on the field you selected. The data will remain in that sequence when you next open the form, and until it is changed again.

 

Data Filtering: You can view subsets of the data by right-clicking in a data field and then clicking the 'Filter By' action item. You restore all of the data by closing and opening the screen or by right-clicking in the same field and choosing the 'Filter (Reset all records)' action item.

 

Printed Report: Clicking the ‘Report’ button will open a report that you can print if you wish. The report is divided into sections as determined by the first data field.

 

Data Editing: You can double-click in most fields to open an edit box. This box shows multiple lines and the number of characters that are available to you for the field. Note that the two right-most data fields can be edited for style as well as for content.

 

If you would like to see how this data can be used, change to the ‘Sample’ user and view that data.

 

There is only one hyperlink available to you, but should you require additional linkages to other drug or disease related web-sites, you can always store their addresses in a description data field and then copy and paste the address into your web browser when you want to visit the site.

 

Use the attachment field to store scanned images of medication information provided by your pharmacist. Prescription medications are often accompanied by information sheets that can be scanned and stored as references using this field.

 

You can delete a record by selecting it (clicking the box on the far left) and pressing the delete key or right-clicking and using the 'Cut' action option.