Adding and editing a patient's allergies in ePrescribe

You can add and edit allergies for a patient in ePrescribe.

Note: The allergies in ePrescribe and Dentrix Ascend are not linked or synchronized.

To add and edit allergies

1. How to get there

   1. If the correct patient is not already selected, use the Patient Search box to access the patient's record.

   2. On the Patient menu, under General, click (or tap) Prescriptions.

      The patient's Patient Prescriptions page opens.

   On a patient's Patient Prescriptions page, on the Prescription menu, select New Electronic Prescription.

   

   Note: The New Electronic Prescription option is available only if the patient has a status of "New" or "Active."

   The Electronic Prescriptions page opens.

   

   Note: You cannot navigate to other areas of Dentrix Ascend while accessing ePrescribe through a patient's record.

2. In the top area, next to Act. Allergies, click (or tap) the text "None entered" (if no allergies have been added) or the text of any existing allergies.

   The Act. Allergies dialog box appears.

   

3. Do any of the following as needed:

   Specify that there are no known allergies:

   1. Click No Known Allergies.

      

   Add an allergy:

   1. Click (or tap) Add Allergy.

      

      The Choose Allergen options appear.

      

   2. Select whether you want to search by Class or Medication.

   3. Enter all or part of a class or medication that you want to search for in the search box, and then click (or tap) GO.

      The search results appear.

      

   4. Select an item in the search results list.

   5. Leave today's date, or enter the correct Date when allergy first noticed/reported.

   6. Select whether you are entering an Allergy or an Intolerance.

   7. Select the patient's Reaction to the specified allergen, or if the correct reaction is not listed, enter a description in the box provided.

   8. Click Save.

   Edit an allergy:

   1. Click an allergy's Edit link.

      

      Note: To filter the list of allergies, select Active (to view only active allergies), Inactive (to view only inactive allergies), or All (to view active and inactive allergies).

      The options for editing the allergy appear.

      

   2. Do any of the following as needed:

      • Select whether this allergy is Active or Inactive.

      • Select a different Reaction, or if the correct reaction is not listed, enter a description in the box provided.

      • Select whether this is an Allergy or Intolerance.

   3. Click (or tap) Save.

   Specify that an allergy was entered in error (EIE):

   1. Click (or tap) an allergy's EIE link.

      

4. Click (or tap) Back to close the Act. Allergies dialog box.