Patient Prescription helps you quickly create and accurately track medicines prescribed for your patients. To begin using Patient Prescription, you must configure some prescription settings.
Note: Configuring prescription settings requires the "Patient Prescriptions, Setup" security right.
To configure prescription settings
Do one of the following:
While logged in to the Central clinic, in Office Manager, expand the Maintenance menu, point to Practice Setup, and then click Prescriptions Setup.
Note: This option is available only if you are logged in to the Central clinic.
In Patient Prescription, click the Prescription Settings button 
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If applicable, do one of the following:
If the Password - Patient Prescriptions, Setup dialog box appears, user verification has been assigned to the "Patient Prescriptions, Setup" task. Do one of the following:
If your user account has been granted the "Patient Prescriptions, Setup" security right, enter your credentials in the User ID and Password boxes, and then click OK.
If your user account has not been granted the "Patient Prescriptions, Setup" security right, have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can configure prescription settings this one time. The overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
If a message appears, informing you that you do not have rights to this operation, your user account has not been granted the "Patient Prescriptions, Setup" security right. To have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can configure prescription settings this one time, do the following:
On the message, click Yes.
In the Password - Patient Prescriptions, Setup dialog box, the overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
The Prescriptions Setup dialog box appears.
Perform any of the following tasks:
Add, edit, and delete prescription templates.
Customize the order of prescription routes.
Set up a printer for printing prescriptions.