PRESCRIBEIT®: Administrative Workflow in Profile

article overview this article is intended for administrative users of prescribeit® and outlines the administrative workflow through the following topics prescribeit® docid\ krwej6aib9qmrqwil 495e prescribing docid\ krwej6aib9qmrqwil 495administrative workflow docid\ krwej6aib9qmrqwil 495prescribeit® pharmacy registry synchronization docid\ krwej6aib9qmrqwil 495local pharmacy update docid\ krwej6aib9qmrqwil 495 docid\ krwej6aib9qmrqwil 495preferred pharmacy update docid\ krwej6aib9qmrqwil 495 prescribeit® canada health infoway is working with health canada along with provinces and territories, and industry stakeholders like intrahealth to create, operate and maintain a financially self sustaining, e prescribing service, known as prescribeit® this will be a single service that can be scaled for use across the country, enabling prescribers to electronically transmit a prescription to a patient’s pharmacy of choice the service will provide safer and more effective medication management by connecting community based prescribers (such as physicians and nurse practitioners) through their existing electronic medical records (emr), to community retail pharmacies to enable the electronic transmission of prescriptions prescribeit® will reduce the use of paper prescriptions, enhance patient safety, reduce fraud, improve continuity of care, optimize jurisdictional drug information system investments, and facilitate better health outcomes for canadians e prescribing e prescribing is the secure electronic creation and transmission of a prescription between an authorized prescriber and a patient’s pharmacy of choice, using clinical electronic medical record (emr) and pharmacy management software administrative workflow administrative workflows for prescribeit® in profile include synchronizing local pharmacy records with the prescribeit® pharmacy registry, updating local pharmacy information to match prescribeit® pharmacy registry information, and updating patient records with a prescribeit® enabled pharmacy for the providers to create eprescriptions prescribeit® pharmacy registry synchronization the list of prescribeit® enabled pharmacies is periodically updated and a system task called auto sync pharmacies has been added to organization/system tasks explore r to periodically sync the pharmacy registry to determine if any of the existing and new local pharmacies have been enabled for prescribeit or updated the system task can also be run manually by selecting the system task and clicking on the run selected task button in the system tasks toolbar the system task is set to run monthly by default, but this can be changed go to organization/system tasks explorer and double click the auto sync pharmacies system task select the schedule tab of the system task and change the schedule task dropdown field option to weekly , or even daily , if preferred the information tab in the system task will display the results of the most recent task execution full logs can be viewed in control centre/manage/import/export errors/logs if pharmacies have duplicate fax numbers in profile, they will not be synchronized these items can be viewed in control centre/manage/import/export errors/logs the clinics should enter the accurate fax numbers for the pharmacies pharmacies can also be manually synchronized by the clinic in profile there are two methods, based on knowing whether the pharmacy exists locally (i e , in profile) or not for existing local pharmacy go to organisation/external providers in the external providers window, enter the name of the pharmacy in the name field, select suppliers in the type dropdown field, pharmacy in the specialty dropdown field, and press search select the desired pharmacy from the resulting list and click on the in the toolbar column if there is a in this column for the pharmacy, it is a prescribeit® enabled pharmacy if there is a in this column for the pharmacy, it can send and receive medication orders via prescribeit® if there is a in this column for the pharmacy, it can send and receive prescribeit® messages in the prescribeit external pharmacy search for \[pharmacy] window, check the update local supplier information checkbox and clicks link to link the specified local pharmacy with the prescribeit® pharmacy registry for no local pharmacy go to organisation/external providers to open the prescribeit external pharmacy search window click on the icon below from the external providers toolbar enter the fax number of the pharmacy in the fax field and press search if necessary, information can be entered in other fields, such as the name field, the province field, and the city field select the desired pharmacy from the resulting list of prescribeit® enabled pharmacies you can see that the pharmacy is not linked locally in the area below the list because it is not linked, the select button is disabled press new supplier this opens the new external provider window you can make any desired changes for this local pharmacy record and then press ok to save the information once this is complete, you will see the pharmacy listed in the external providers window as prescribeit® enabled note if a local pharmacy has been linked in error, you can search for the pharmacy and click in the external providers toolbar in the confirmation dialog box, press yes to unlink the local pharmacy from the prescribeit® pharmacy registry local pharmacy update you can update existing pharmacy information in profile with prescribeit® pharmacy registry information the update includes the pharmacy’s name, address, city, postal code, province, and phone number go to organisation/external providers and search for the desired pharmacy in the toolbar, click this opens a dialog box confirming you want to update the pharmacy information click yes to update the information preferred pharmacy update if the patient prefers to switch to an prescribeit® enabled pharmacy from one that isn’t yet, the following steps can be completed press in the main toolbar in the alter patient window, select the care team view from the segment bar menu click in the pharmacy preferred field in the provider column and enter at least the first 3 letters of the pharmacy name to select the new preferred pharmacy from the dropdown list if necessary, click the ellipses at the end of the field to open the select external provider window to search for the desired pharmacy press ok in the alter patient window to save the changes learn more click below to read more about prescribeit® prescribeit® provider workflow in profile docid\ tmudow7kgoybenhhlf4dyprescribeit® pharmacy clinical communication in profile docid\ ymk4t6wurgsvawcu0xkl0