Medication and Prescription Writer

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Medications

• Practice Today will allow you to create medication treatment plans; with one click you can prescribe all standard medications for a given illness, and then customize if necessary;
• Practice Today will maintain complete records of active and discontinued patient medications.
• Practice Today will retain reasons why a patient medication was discontinued of a given patient.

Practice Today (Pro) includes a full-featured Prescription Writer

Major Features of Prescription Writer

Saves time writing prescriptions

• In most cases, it takes only two clicks of the mouse to write a prescription;

Complete formulary

• A 10,000 entry formulary is included;
• You can add to, or edit the formulary;
• You can access medications by categories;

Checks interactions

• Checks for drug-drug, drug-diagnosis, drug-allergy, and drug-pregnancy interactions;
• Interfaces with The Medical LetterŪ Adverse Drug Interaction Program;
• Alerts for fatal and non-fatal interactions;
• You can add to, edit, or delete drug interactions;

Treatment Plans

• You can setup medication treatment plans;
• Treatment plans can contain a medication regimen for a specific illness;

Refills are simple

• Keeps track of prescription refills;
• It takes only two clicks to refill and print a prescription;

Prints prescriptions that are complete

• Prescriptions display patient diagnoses, allergies;
• Medications can be prescribed by trade name or generically;
• National Drug Codes can be displayed if desired
• Prescriptions can display a gray security background if desired;
• Prescriptions can display a "patient education" message for each medication;

Keep medications, allergies, and diagnoses up-to-date

• Keeps track of patient allergies, and diagnoses;
• Prints patient allergies and diagnoses on prescription;
• Keeps track of patient medications, active and discontinued;

FAX prescriptions to patient's pharmacy

• Prescriptions can be easily faxed to the patient's pharmacy using WinFax;
• Keeps track of the patient's pharmacy;
• Patients can have multiple pharmacies;