"Your Rx is ready."
Posted By: Brigid O'Brien 
Date Posted: November 20th, 2009 Category: Being a Patient
Rather than announce patients’ names, I would like pharmacies to have an LED board, where last names could be posted once their Rx is filled. This would allow people to leave the waiting area and know upon their return if their Rx ready.
Comment By: Cary Bynum
Date & Time: November 20, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Clever idea, And I wonder if they could achieve the same result by allowing you to "take a ticket" like a restaurant would do and post the number rather than a name when the prescription is ready….? Might help with privacy issues…In fact I'd be interested in hearing if others here think it would be a privacy issue….
Comment By: Brigid O'Brien
Date & Time: November 20, 2009 at 1:46 pm
They already yell your first and last names – at least seeing only your last name on the board would be slightly less public.
Comment By: Cary Bynum
Date & Time: November 20, 2009 at 2:46 pm
LOL. Good point.
Comment By: Rebekah
Date & Time: November 23, 2009 at 4:07 pm
They used to do something like that at the BJH Outpatient Pharmacy. I'm not sure why they stopped. There was a TV up on the wall, and an abbreviated version of the patient's name would be added to the scrolling list when his/her prescription was ready. My name, for example, would have been up there as "R JOH****"
I wonder why they got rid of it.
Comment By: Kathryn Vehe
Date & Time: March 13, 2010 at 11:01 am
I would guess the TV with the partial names went away due to HIPAA issues – I personally don't care, but if I didn't want anyone to know I was having a prescription filled, there wouldn't be a whole lot of difference between KVEHE and KVEH*.