“The majority of the transplant patients find the MedActionPlan schedule very useful when they have questions about medications. Post-op transplant patient’s medication dosages may change twice weekly, and sometimes this becomes overwhelming for them to keep up with. We teach the patients how to use MedActionPlan and MyMedSchedule.com effectively. If the patient does not have computer access, they may grant family members permission to log on to their medication lists to view and print changes. Patients are also provided a hard print copy in their education binders.”

How we continue to help and teach our patients:

“We are encouraged to provide our patients with teaching and disease information within our specialty of heart failure and lung disease. Using approved medical websites, like MedActionPlan, we recommend that our patients come in for follow-up counseling and educational courses. MedActionPlan is used for this medication teaching and has shown to result in improved medication compliance.”

—Carolyn Q Alexander RN BSN
Cardiothoracic Transplant Coordinator
Baylor University Medical Center 

MedActionPlan users who print the Weekly Checklist or Health Record for their patients will find a useful new feature available: you can now select which day the week starts with. Why would you want to do that? It could make it easier for the patient to use the tool, and save you a sheet of paper in the process.

For example, perhaps you have a patient being discharged on a Wednesday, with a follow-up appointment in one week. With the old version of the Checklist and Health Record, you would need to print two sheets for each: one for the remaining days in the first week, and another for the first few days of the next week. And each page would have several columns left unused, which could be confusing for some patients. With the new feature, you can print a single page beginning on the day of discharge. 

Selecting the first day of the week is a simple one-step process: simply click on the day along the top of the Checklist or Health Record. Your selection on one page will be applied to all the pages. Just click on SUN (Sunday) to go back to the default.