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How Do I Create a Prescription for the Patient?

To prescribe medication for a patient, perform the following steps:

  1. Click View Patient Information icon. Demographics tab of Patient Info screen appears as shown below.

  1. Enter the patient's details whichever is mandatory under Demographics tab.

  2. Click the Health Information tab. Health Information tab of Patient Info screen appears as shown below.

  1. Click New/Edit button. The application launches NewCrop interface with the Allergies and Medications screen appearing as shown below. By default, the interface displays Med Entry tab.

  1. Click Compose Rx tab. The NewCrop interface displays Compose Rx tab screen as shown below.

Before you prescribe a medicine, you could search it by typing the name of the medicine in the text field besides Drug Search button. In addition to search, you could also select the drug from the searched list.

  1. Type the first three characters/letters of the medicine you wish to prescribe and click the Drug Search button which is highlighted in red as shown below.

For example, let us consider "Dia" as first three characters/letters of the medicine. Type "Dia" in the text field and click the Drug Search button. The NewCrop interface will show you all drug names starting with "Dia" as shown below.

  1. Select the drug from the list. The following screen is displayed. This screen facilitates you to administrate the dosage of the drug.

  1. Complete the dosage administration fields, click Save Rx button.

  2. Repeat steps 6 - 8 as many times you wish to add medicines to the prescription. Click Take Complete Rx to Review Page button. This will check whether the selected drug has any contra indications such as drug-drug or drug-allergy interactions. If the Newcrop interface doesn't prompt with an alert, it means that the patient has no contra indications with the selected drug(s).

  3. Click Finish / Add to Current Meds to complete the process of prescribing the medicine. The Newcrop interface will show the following confirming drug prescription to a patient.

You may click the Edit button to modify the dosage/refill information. Closing the screen will save the information in NewCrop.

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This Meaningful Use feature is available in RamSoft PowerServer only with Meaningful Use license.