Adding pharmacies 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 preferred pharmacies in ePrescribe to help expedite the entry of electronic prescription orders for that patient. As needed, when entering a prescription, you can change the pharmacy where the electronic prescription order is to be sent.

To add a pharmacy for a patient's electronic prescriptions

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 Pharmacies.

   The Manage Patient's Pharmacies options appear.

   

6. Do one of the following:

   • To search for pharmacies relative to the patient's address, click (or tap) Search By Patient. The applicable pharmacies appear.

     

     Tip: To narrow or widen the search results, select the Map View checkbox, and then change the Radius.

     

   • To perform a custom search for pharmacies, specify the criteria (such as the Name and State), and then click (or tap) Search. The pharmacies that match your search criteria appear.

     

7. Under Pharmacy Results, click (or tap) a pharmacy.

   The selected pharmacy now appears in the Current Pharmacies list.

   

   Tip: If the patient has only one pharmacy, the Set As Default checkbox is selected. If the patient has multiple pharmacies, you can select the Set As Default checkbox of any pharmacy to make it the default for any of the patient's prescriptions. Regardless of which pharmacy is the patient's default, you can change the pharmacy as needed when entering any prescription.

   Note: To view additional patient information (in the upper-left box), including any specified pharmacies, 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.

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