Environment
- Practitioner Role
🎓 Training Tip: For a full overview of Medications and Prescriptions, click here.
Instructions
There are two ways to create Prescriptions: Within a Chart Note and via the Medications tab of the Patient Profile.
🔐 Only Practitioners can create Chart Notes.
Create Prescriptions within Chart Notes (Embeds)
1. Open the Patient Profile
2. Click Charting
3. Create/open your Chart Note
4. Within the Chart Note, start to type /prescription and choose from the dropdown:
5. Start to type in the name of the drug and choose it from the list:
6. Fill in (and/or modify) the required fields
7. Click Create
8. Click Confirm when you are satisfied that everything is correct
You will be taken to the Prescriptions sub-tab, where you will see a preview of the Prescription (don't worry, your chart note is saved in draft).
On the right-hand side, you can find options to:
- View and add comments to the Timeline
- Fax
- Download
- Re-Prescribe
- Send to Pharmacy via Preferred Pharmacy: If the patient has indicated a preferred pharmacy and it is linked to their patient profile, you will see it here. You can click Fax Prescription to send it, or you can choose a different pharmacy. Click here to learn how to set up Preferred Pharmacies.
If you choose to fax it to the preferred pharmacy, you'll see a pop-up letting you know the fax is in the queue.
To determine if the fax was successful, you can expand the Timeline to see this information:
Create Prescriptions from Medications Tab
1. Open the Patient Profile
2. Click on Medications sub-tab
3. Click New Prescription
4. Start typing the name in the Search field, and it will populate
5. Choose the appropriate drug from the list
6. Fill in (and/or modify) the required fields
7. Click Create
Once you've created the Prescription, you will see it on your screen. On the right-hand side, you will see several options where you can:
- View and add comments to the Timeline
- Fax
- Download
- Re-Prescribe
- Send to Pharmacy via Preferred Pharmacy: If the patient has indicated a preferred pharmacy and it is linked to their patient profile, you will see it here. You can click Fax Prescription to send it, or you can choose a different pharmacy. Click here to learn how to set up Preferred Pharmacies.
If you choose to fax it to the preferred pharmacy, you'll see a pop-up letting you know the fax is in the queue.
To determine if the fax was successful, you can expand the Timeline to see this information: