Adding drug allergies for electronic prescriptions

If your organization uses Dentrix Ascend ePrescribe, and if you are logged in to Dentrix Ascend as a user whose user account has electronic prescriptions enabled, you can specify a patient's drug allergies in ePrescribe, so a provider or proxy who is entering an electronic prescription order for that patient is aware of any reactions the patient may have. You can also specify that a patient does not have any known allergies.

To add a drug allergy or specify that there are no known 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, click (or tap) New Electronic Prescription.

   

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

   If you are a proxy user (a user who can prescribe only on behalf of a doctor), the Please select who you are acting on behalf of dialog box appears; otherwise, skip the next step.

   

2. From the Possible Prescribers list, select a provider whose user account has ePrescribe enabled, and then click (or tap) OK.

   If the patient is younger than 18 years old and does not have a height and weight entered in ePrescribe, the Enter Patient's Height and Weight dialog box appears. You cannot perform any tasks in this patient's ePrescribe record until after you enter a height and weight; otherwise, skip to step 5.

   

3. Do the following:

   • To specify the height, select the unit of measure (in or cm) from the Height Unit list, and then enter a value in the Height box.

   • To specify the weight, select the unit of measure (lb or kg) from the Weight Unit list, and then enter a value in the Weight box.

4. Click (or tap) Save.

   The Electronic Prescriptions page opens.

   

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

5. Click (or tap) Add/Edit Drug Allergies.

   The Add Drug Allergy options appear.

   

6. Do one of the following:

   • To specify that the patient has stated that he or she does not have any allergies, select the No Known Allergies checkbox.

   • To add the patient's known drug allergies, set up the following options:

     • Name - Begin typing the name of the allergy, continue typing as needed to narrow the results list, and then select the correct allergy.

     • Status - Select whether the allergy is Active or Inactive.

     • Reaction Type - Select whether the type of reaction is an Allergy or Adverse Reaction.

     • Reaction - Optionally, enter the reaction as reported by the patient.

     • Onset - If known, enter the date of onset of the allergy.

7. Click (or tap) Save.

   Note: To view additional patient information (in the upper-left box), including any specified drug allergies, click the Expand button .

   

8. To exit ePrescribe, make sure that all your changes have been saved, and click (or tap) Done. Then, on the message that appears, click (or tap) Confirm.