Overview
Prescriptions is the medication side of clinical work. Build a drug catalog once, reuse dosage templates forever, and write a prescription in a minute. Allergy conflicts flag at write time; status moves from Draft → Issued → Dispensed as the script makes its way to the patient and the pharmacy.
Activation
- 1Dashboard → Add-ons → Prescriptions → Activate.
- 2Open Settings — set your clinic license number, prescription header/footer, default language, and toggles (show generic names, show diagnosis).
Drug catalog
Prescriptions → Drugs. The drug catalog is searchable and used throughout the add-on.
- Add a drug: name, strength, form (tablet, syrup, injection), route (oral, IV), notes.
- Edit anything; deactivate (not delete) drugs you no longer prescribe — historical prescriptions need them.
- Import via CSV for bulk onboarding — the template is on the page.
Dosage templates
Dosage templates are reusable "drug + dose + frequency + duration + quantity" snippets. Prescriptions → Templates.
- 1Create a template — pick a drug, set dose ("500mg"), frequency ("3x daily"), duration ("7 days"), quantity.
- 2At write-time, add a template row with one click instead of typing the same line for the 400th time.
Writing a prescription
- 1Prescriptions → Create.
- 2Pick the client and the prescriber.
- 3Add medications — either from scratch or by dropping in a template.
- 4If the client has recorded allergies, a warning banner appears at the top if any added drug clashes.
- 5Save as Draft to keep editing, or Issue to finalise and generate the PDF.
Status workflow
- Draft
- Editable, not printable yet.
- Issued
- Finalised, printable, visible on the client portal.
- Dispensed
- Pharmacy has confirmed dispensing (manual marker for record-keeping).
- Cancelled
- Revoked — status badge shown on the PDF too.
Printing & portal
From an Issued prescription, hit Print for the pad layout or Download PDF for the branded letterhead version. The same prescription is auto-visible to the patient on their client portal — no extra work.
Tips
- Build templates for your top 20 prescribing patterns. 95% of your scripts will come from those 20.
- Record patient allergies on the client profile. The allergy check is only as good as that record.
- Keep the license number accurate — most regulators require it on every printed prescription.