Medication Precautions

Helix provides prescribing decision support including condition and drug allergy or adverse reaction alerts.

About this task

Record the patient's medication precautions in the Medication precautions-iconMedication Precautions section.

Procedure

To add a medication precaution:
  1. From the Patient search iconPatient Search or Patient Queue iconPatient Queue, select a patient.
  2. In the patient record header, click Medication Precautions iconMedication Precautions or if the patient already has a precaution recorded, select it.
  3. In the Medication precautions-iconMedication Precautions form, set any precautions that you want to be informed about when prescribing for this patient.
    Example Medication Precaution
    Note:
    If any of the patient's medications are contraindicated because of the new precaution, an alert message is displayed. Alerts are ordered from highest to lowest severity.
  4. Review the alerts and click Continue or alternatively, to remove the product from the current medications list, locate and select the required medications and click Continue. The removed medications are added to the Health summary iconHealth Summary > Ceased Medications list.
    Medication precautions alert

Results

Precautions are displayed in the header of the patient record.
Recorded patient's allergies

For pregnant women, gestations of more than 40 weeks are indicated.

If there are any interactions for the precautions you just set, they are displayed immediately.

What to do next

An alert is displayed if you attempt to prescribe medications that the patient may have a allergic to. Red indicates the highest severity, followed by orange, and then yellow.
Example alert