Patient Prescription is designed to help you record medicines that your office prescribes to patients.
Notes:
Medications are drugs that have not been prescribed by your office and are, therefore, different from prescriptions.
Accessing Patient Prescription requires the "Patient Prescriptions, Open" security right.
To open Patient Prescription
Do one of the following:
With a patient selected in Chart, Family File, or Ledger, click the Prescriptions button on the toolbar:
If the patient has prescriptions, the button has a red Rx.
If the patient does not have prescriptions, there is not a red Rx.
With a patient selected in Treatment Planner or Document Center, click the Prescriptions button on the toolbar:
If the patient has prescriptions, the button has a red Rx.
If the patient does not have prescriptions, there is not a red Rx.
With a guarantor selected in Collections Manager, click the Prescriptions button on the toolbar:
If the guarantor has prescriptions, the button has a red Rx.
If the guarantor does not have prescriptions, there is not a red Rx.
With a patient's appointment selected in Appointment Book, click the Prescriptions button on the toolbar:
If the patient has prescriptions, the button has a red Rx.
If the patient does not have prescriptions, there is not a red Rx.
In Medical Alerts, click the Patient Prescription button on the toolbar 
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With a patient selected in Chart, Family File, Ledger, Treatment Planner, or Document Center, on the File menu, point to Switch To, and then click Prescriptions.
With a patient's appointment selected in Appointment Book, on the File menu, point to Switch To, and then click Prescriptions.
With a guarantor selected in Collections Manager, on the File menu, click Prescriptions.
If applicable, do one of the following:
If the Password - Patient Prescriptions, Open dialog box appears, user verification has been assigned to the "Patient Prescriptions, Open" task. Do one of the following:
If your user account has been granted the "Patient Prescriptions, Open" 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, Open" security right, have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can access Patient 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, Open" security right. To have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can access Patient Prescription this one time, do the following:
On the message, click Yes.
In the Password - Patient Prescriptions, Open dialog box, the overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.
The Patient Prescription dialog box appears.
Notes:
The entry date, description, status, drug name, dosing instructions, provider, and other information for each prescription appear.
A check mark to the left of a date indicates that a change was made to the default options from the prescription template that was used to enter the corresponding prescription.
You can sort the list in ascending order by clicking a column header. Click the same column header again to sort the list in descending order.
Click any of the following links to learn about using Patient Prescription:
Viewing or editing prescriptions