Entering patient-reported medications

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, in ePrescribe, you can enter a medication that a patient reports is being taken currently.

To enter a patient-reported medication

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 Patient Reported.

   The Add Patient Reported Medication options appear.

   

6. Begin typing the name of a medication, continue typing as needed to narrow down the results list, and then select the correct medication. If the medication does not appear in the results list, finish entering the name, and then click (or tap) Add.

   

   The medication now appears on the right.

   

7. Click (or tap) Save.

   The patient-reported medication now appears on the Active Medications tab.

   

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.