🎞️ View video tutorial: Reviewing and renewing prescriptions
You can renew a patient's existing or past medications directly from the Prescriptions area of an encounter.
💡 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 section of the encounter or at the top of the prescription window. For more information, refer to ODB and SADIE.
Steps
1. While in an encounter, in the Prescriptions section, click +Add Prescription.
2. In the Prescription Dialog, click this patient's medications to add a medication from the list.
💡 Tip: to quickly renew a medication without making any changes to the dose or instructions, you can bypass the Prescription Dialog by clicking Add from Patient's Existing Medications in the header of the Prescriptions section of the encounter. The selected medication(s) is added directly to the Prescriptions in the encounter. From there, you can sign and send the prescription.
3. In the Patient's Medications window, a list of the patient's active medications displays. For each medication, you can view the dosage information. Click the arrow to the right of the medication to expand it and view the start and end date from the latest prescription.
To renew a past medication, click All to view all medications ever prescribed or recorded for the patient.
4. Select the checkbox beside each medication you want to renew, or select the checkbox at the top of the window to select all the medications at once.
5. Click Create RX.
6. The selected medications appear in the Prescription Dialog. From here, click Edit to make any changes to dose or instructions.
7. Complete the prescription by signing and sending the prescription. See Signing prescriptions for more information.
Updated January 26, 2026