Flows/Add medications from past records

flowmedicationsCARE 3.0+

Overview

This flow describes how to add medicines from a patient's past records into a new prescription in Care. You start from the same screen that you use to prescribe a medication request.

Pre-requisites

The patient is registered in Care, and you record the encounter for that patient.
The encounter is open. You cannot add medicines when the encounter status is Completed, Cancelled, Discontinued, or Entered in Error.
You prescribe a medicine for the encounter. See Prescribe a medication.
You have the permissions listed below.

Permissions

Permission	Access
Update Encounter related clinical data	Lets you add and change medicines for the encounter.

Steps

1. Open the medication history

Select the Medication History action on the prescription screen. Care opens a picker.

2. Review the past records

The picker shows the patient's earlier medication requests. The picker also shows the patient's medication statements, which record the medicines that the patient reports or used before.

3. Select the medicines to add

Select each past record that you want to add. Care adds each selected record to the current prescription as a new medicine row.

4. Review and save

Review each new medicine row. Change the details when you need to. Save the prescription.

Expected Outcome

Care adds the selected past medicines to the current prescription as new medicine rows.
You see the added medicines with the other medicines for the encounter. See View prescriptions and medications for an encounter.

Concept: Concepts/Medication Request
Reference: References/Medication Request