🎞️ View video tutorial: Using favourite medications

Once you save medications to your favourite list (see Saving your favourite medications), you can quickly create a prescription by selecting a medication from your list of favourite medications. You can choose from your favourite medications list before starting a prescription, or while creating a prescription.

In the prescription writer, when you search for a medication to prescribe any matching favourite medications display at the top of the search results with a star, together with your clinic-wide medication formulary, marked with a pill bottle icon. You can also search by the Favourite Display Name. Refer to Creating prescriptions.
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📌 Note: You have the option to remove your clinic-wide medication formulary (pill bottle) from the list of medications. From the Prescription settings, select Exclude Formulary medications from medication search results.
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💡Tip: If the patient has an Ontario health number, you can quickly access the Ontario Drug Benefits (ODB) and Special Authorization Digital Information Exchange (SADIE) websites by clicking the hyperlinks in the Prescriptions area of the encounter or at the top of the prescription window. For more information, refer to ODB and SADIE.

1. In the Prescriptions area of an encounter, click the star icon to Add Medications from My Favourites.

Or, if you have started a new prescription, in the prescription dialog, click my favourites.

2. Select the checkbox beside the medications you want to prescribe and click Save.

💡 Tip: If your list is long, use the Search Favourites field to find your medication.

3. Make any necessary changes to the prescription details, such as dose, refills, and instructions.

4. Complete the prescription as you normally would. Refer to Creating prescriptions and Signing prescriptions for more information.

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