Write Prescriptions from Favourites

Prescribe a preferred medication from your favourites list.

Before you begin

Permissions:
  • Update Medications
To prescribe medications for a patient in Helix, you must have a Prescriber number. Restricted providers can prescribe medication that is included in their user group's Scope of Practice.

Procedure

To write a prescription:
  1. From the Patient search iconPatient Search or Patient Queue iconPatient Queue, select a patient.
  2. To access the Favourites list, either:
    • Select Health SummaryHealth Summary > Add medication icon Medication > Favourites tab.
    • Select Consult buttonConsult > Prescription iconPrescription > Favourites tab.
  3. From your Favourites list, select the medication or drug recipe you want to prescribe.
    Example favourites list
  4. To complete the prescription for a patient, in the Prescription iconPrescription panel, for a prescription favourite, the details from the favourite are included automatically. Update the directions and duration as required. For a favourite added from medication history, add directions and change the duration if required.
    Tip:
    If you update the directions or the duration, if required, click changes made, click update favourite iconFavourite icon to update your favourite.

    For more information about each field in the Prescription iconPrescription, see Write Prescriptions.

  5. Once you have completed all the details, click one of the following options:
    • Save & new - save the prescription to the Consult actions > Prescriptions section of the Consult panel, and start a new prescription. The prescription is not printed yet.
    • Save - save the prescription to the Consult actions > Prescriptions section of the Consult panel. The prescription is not printed yet.
    • Save & Print - save the prescription to the Medications section of the Health Summary iconHealth Summary panel, and print it.
    • Save & send - if ePrescribing is enabled, send an electronic token to the patient. For more information, see Send ePrescriptions.
      Note:
      If the patient's IHI No. Status and Record Status are not both Active and Verified, you cannot send the prescription to the eRx service and the Save & send button is inactive.

Results

For ePrescribing, a preview is displayed. For more information, see Send ePrescriptions.

The medication selected in the search is displayed on the Health Summary iconHealth Summary. If the user selected Include brand on script, the brand rather than the active ingredient is printed on the prescription.

What to do next

In the Consult actions > Prescriptions section:
  • To view a prescription's details, select it.
  • To print a prescription, click Print iconPrint for that medication.
  • To reprint prescriptions that have already been printed, click Reprint iconReprint.
  • To print all scripts, click Print all scriptsPrint all in the Consult actions > Prescriptions header. Only the unsent or unprinted prescriptions are printed.

    Print all is active when there is one or more unsent or unprinted prescriptions in the Prescriptions list.

  • To send all scripts, click Send iconSend all in the Consult actions > Prescriptions header. For more information, see Send Multiple ePrescriptions
  • To remove a prescription, click Delete iconDelete.