You can delete a prescription as needed.
Notes:
Alternately, you can inactivate a prescription.
Deleting prescriptions requires the "Patient Prescriptions, Delete" security right.
To delete a prescription
In the Patient Prescription dialog box, select the prescription that you want to delete.
Click
the Delete Prescription button
.
If applicable, do one of the following:
If the Password - Patient Prescriptions, Delete dialog box appears, user verification has been assigned to the "Patient Prescriptions, Delete" task. Do one of the following:
If your user account has been granted the "Patient Prescriptions, Delete" 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, Delete" security right, have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can delete a prescription 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, Delete" security right. To have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can delete a prescription this one time, do the following:
On the message, click Yes.
In the Password - Patient Prescriptions, Delete dialog box, the overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
A confirmation message appears.
Click Yes.
Note: A notation about the deletion is added to the audit trail.