The Prescription Order Entry function includes robust features for writing, renewing, printing, or e-faxing patients' prescriptions. Several of these features are restricted to only users with the Prescribe Medications user role. With Prescription Order Entry, users can:

• Write, renew, print, or e-fax prescriptions, while maintaining a “My Favorites” list of drugs.
• Maintains a list of favorite pharmacies for e-faxing
• Allows for each patient to be tied to their favorite pharmacy
• View patients’ medications and allergies while writing prescriptions.
• View a list of warnings and precautions for patients based on the drugs being prescribed and patients’ current (active) medications and allergies. This feature supports the following warning types and precautions:
  • Drug/Drug Interaction
  • Potential Drug/Allergy Reaction
  • Potential Allergy to Inactive Ingredient
  • Geriatric Precaution
  • Pediatric Precaution
  • Lactation Precaution
  • Pregnancy Precaution
• Automatically update patients’ current medication lists with the drugs being prescribed.
• Automatically populate the Drug Therapy section of an eNOTE with the prescriptions written for the encounter.
• Increase patient safety by:
  • Reducing prescription errors caused by illegible handwriting.
  • Automating the process of checking drug interactions.
  • Automating the process of checking allergies.