A prescription is an official document from a healthcare practitioner that authorizes a pharmacist to dispense any specific drug based on the patient's health condition.
There are two primary avenues for adding a drug:
- From the Patient Overview.
- From Practice Setting.
Add Prescriptions from Patient Overview
You could add the prescriptions from the patient overview for which you may follow the below steps.
- Select the patient using the Global Patient Search Bar > click Overview.
- Click +Presc quicklink.
- Click on +Paper Prescription to initiate the process.
- Enter the Provider Details such as Title, Provider, and select the Drug(s) to add.
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- Select an existing drug or introduce a new one by clicking + Add New Drug to System.
- On the popup for entering the drug details, enter all the information and click Save.
- If you want to print as well, click Save & Print.
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- Now the newly added drug will be available under the drop-down for the drugs.
Add Prescriptions from Practice Settings
You would be able to choose drugs from the dropdown in the patient overview as you create a prescription in the Practice Settings.
To add a prescription for your practice:
- Navigate to the System menu > Practice Settings > Prescriptions > Drugs.
- Click on +Add Drugs.
- Enter the details of the drug.
- Once you have entered all the details of the drug, click on the Save button.
- Once the drug is saved successfully, a popup message will be shown on the top right as shown below: "Drug added successfully".
Practices can use this simple guide to learn how to easily set up a prescription in CareStack.