Represcribe a medication

Represcribe any current or ceased prescription except for those where the product has been discontinued.

Before you begin

Permissions:
  • Update Medications
To prescribe medications for a patient in Helix, you must have a Prescriber number.

When you represcribe a medication or drug recipe, the previous details including dosage instructions and subsidy type are included in the new prescription.

About this task

Represcribe medications from the Health Summary iconHealth Summary panel.

Procedure

To represcribe an existing prescription for a patient:
  1. From the Patient search iconPatient Search or Patient Queue iconPatient Queue, select a patient.
  2. In the Health Summary iconHealth Summary, for the medication you want to represcribe, select Quick Prescribe buttonQuick Prescribe.
  3. Details from the previous prescription are displayed. Make any changes needed and complete the new prescription using Write Prescriptions for reference.
    Tip:
    If a patient's circumstances changes, to change a subsidy category and enable authority fields, click Change Subsidy Category.
  4. Click Save & print or for ePrescribing, Save & send.
  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

If you hadn't already started a consultation for the patient, it is now started.

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

Prescriptions for S8 drug recipes print using the S8 prescription template with a space for prescriber handwriting.

What to do next

If you attempt to exit the patient's consultation before printing their scripts, you will be prompted to print them. If you choose to exit without printing the prescriptions, they will not be saved to the patient's record. To print the prescription, click Print iconPrint.

When you exit the consult, printed prescriptions are displayed in the Patient Timeline prefixed with Prescription iconPrescription.
Send delivery type in patient timeline

Select a prescription to view its details. For more information, see Prescriptions in the Patient Timeline.