How to Record Medication Prescribed Elsewhere in a Patient Record

Purpose

If a patient is prescribed medication at another organisation, it's useful to record this in the patient record. This user guide will show you how to view and record medications prescribed elsewhere in Medicus.

Navigating to the care record

There are two ways to navigate to the patient record within Medicus:

1. Using the patient finder.
2. By selecting a patient from the patient list, located in the Patient Administration module.

Once you select the patient you'd like to view through one of the methods outlined above, you'll be taken to the clinical care record.

Recording medication prescribed elsewhere

There are two ways to record medication prescribed elsewhere in Medicus:

1. From the care record
2. From a consultation

Recording medication prescribed elsewhere from the care record

To record medication prescribed elsewhere from a patient's care record, select the 'Actions' dropdown menu in the top right hand corner of the patient care record. Select 'Medication prescribed elsewhere' from the list.

Recording medication prescribed elsewhere from a consultation

To record medication prescribed elsewhere from a consultation, select the 'More actions' dropdown link, and then select 'Medication prescribed elsewhere'.

Completing the medication prescribed elsewhere form

By following one of the two methods above, you'll be presented with the 'Record Medication Prescribed Elsewhere' form.

The 'Record date' and 'Record author' details are pre-populated, but you can change this if required.

Press 'Save' once you've completed the form to record this information in Medicus.

This will be visible on the:

• Clinical summary page
• Medication regimen page
• Patient journal