When a medication is to be taken for a long period of time, would it be an enhancement to “duplicate” the entry and then just change the start date, end date, and refills when the medication has refills?
When a new prescription for the same medication is written after the number of refills has been exhausted, then the duplication would carry forward the majority of the information again – the only differences/new information would be, in most case, the start date, end date, Rx# and the refills and changes in the notes and instructions (which these two are unlikely).