Dispensing Prescription medications to clients without a consultation
This may be an easy question, but I can't figure it out:
How do you dispense a prescription medication to a client without "checking them in" for a consultation?
E.g. in the UK it is common to dispense repeat prescriptions for say painkillers to dogs, providing you have seen the dog within a given interval of time.
I can't figure out how to do an "OTC" transaction, but still add the medication to the patient's medical records, and also print a dispensing label.
Anyone have any ideas?
Re: Dispensing Prescription medications to clients without a ...
Cahir - do as follows: in the Customer workspace, click Charges (in the left hand column), click the New button, choose Invoice, fill in the details - if you choose a medication with a dispensing label this will be shown and you can print the label. Click the Completed and Finalise buttons, and optionally print the invoice and receive payment.
If you now call up the patient's medical history you will see the medication listed at the top.
The trick is NOT to do an OTC - since these are done to the customer with no patient specified. If you use Invoice, then there is a patient and the information gets added to the patient medical record.
Regards, Tim G