To enter an electronic patient prescription,
open the patient menu and select prescriptions.
Then click the Prescription dropdown menu
and select New Electronic Prescription.
You must subscribe to ePrescribe
and be a provider or proxy user
to see the New Electronic Prescription option
and the Electronic Prescriptions page.
If you are a proxy user, select the provider for
whom you are entering the prescription.
If this is the first time you are entering an
electronic prescription for this patient,
you will initially need to enter any drug allergies,
health problems, and the patient’s preferred
pharmacy.
When you first begin using ePrescribe,
this information will be blank.
Click New Rx to enter a new prescription.
Next select a prescription filter.
Type the prescription name in the prescription
search bar.
Select the prescription from the list.
Click Select Sig to enter the details of the
prescription.
Select a dosage filter, the desired dosage,
and complete the prescription information
as you normally would.
Click Add to Script Pad if you want to enter
another prescription or click Add & Review
if there are no other electronic prescriptions
that you need to enter.
A warning message will appear if there are any
drug allergies, drug interactions, dosage errors
or duplicate therapies.
On the Script Pad, click Edit to edit the
prescription, or click Remove to remove the
prescription.
Click Continue to search for a new prescription
that will avoid a future warning.
In this case, I will search for another
prescription because this patient is allergic to
penicillin.
Then click Select Sig.
Select the desired dosage and complete the
prescription information.
When you are finished, click Add & Review.
Here you can see the prescriptions that have
been entered.
Under Destination, select Send to physician
with Retail or Send to Physician so that it can
be approved by the provider.
Select Process Script Pad
to process the prescriptions listed.
For a proxy user, this is your final step.
Click Done.
Then click Confirm to close this patient
prescription.
For a provider, when a proxy user enters a
prescription on your behalf,
a red asterisk appears next to your username
and next to Electronic Prescriptions
on the User menu, as an alert that you have
pending prescriptions to review,
approve and send.
Click electronic prescriptions.
Under Tasks, open the patient’s pending
prescription.
Review the prescription and approve or deny it.
By default, approve is selected for
non-controlled substances.
If a controlled substance is listed,
a window will open where you must select
the EPCS checkbox to confirm that you
checked your state’s prescription drug
monitoring programs (PDMPs) database,
enter your Veradigm password and the one-
time passcode that will be sent to your
authenticator app, and sign the prescription
before you can send it to the pharmacy.
If there are no items in red, Under Actions,
click Process Tasks.
If there are items in red, under Actions
click the item and resolve it.
When you are done, click Send Script
to electronically send the prescription
to the pharmacy.
Here you can see that the prescription has
been approved and sent to the pharmacy.
To check the status of a prescription,
click the message icon.
Click Search.
Here you can see the patient prescription has
been sent electronically to the pharmacy.
Click Done. Then click Confirm to close the
Electronic Prescriptions Notifications page.