Drug search doesn't display generics

yehster wrote on Saturday, July 30, 2011:

With 4.1 dev (just pulled less than 24 hours ago).
If you go to the prescriptions dialog from the demographics screen, then hit add, then hit the “click here to search”
when you search, it doesn’t seem to be finding generic drugs. (I imported rxnorm).
As examples, try searching for lisinopril and hydrochlorothiazide, two very common blood pressure meds. The drop down populates a bunch of brand name versions of those drugs, but it doesn’t show the generic in the drop down.
A search on acetaminophen only displays tylenol and the like.  No option for the generic shows up.

bradymiller wrote on Saturday, July 30, 2011:

Hi Yehster,
Note that OpenEMR only currently has the functionality to import the RxNORM tables. The functionality to use these tables has not yet been added (so the prescription dialog is still just scraping a drug web site as I recall). I expect this to markedly improve when the RxNORM tables get integrated.
-brady