Would you want to enter a patient's contact information, allergy(s), medical condition(s), and preferred pharmacies every time you need to create an electronic prescription for them? With ePrescribe, you only need to enter this information once (and modify it when changes are required), and ePrescribe will remember it for every ePrescription you create for that patient moving forward.
Watch this video to learn how to set a patient's demographics in ePrescribe. (Duration 3:48)
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It's good practice to include the patient's allergies and medical conditions, as ePrescribe reconciles these with their prescribed medications to warn you of any known drug interactions.
After you have discussed and confirmed with the patient that they don't have any known allergies, select No Known Allergies. If this field is left as "None entered," it leaves the allergy question open regarding whether the provider verified it with the patient.
ePrescribe will display several of the patient's active allergies; however, it may not display all of them on its homepage. To display all of the patient's allergies, click on the displayed allergies and note the allergies in their Act. (Active) Allergies list.
When a patient prefers a mail-order pharmacy, it's also good practice to assign them a local patient-preferred pharmacy so that the patient can pick up medications faster in urgent situations.
