Dispensing End User Description

The outpatient pharmacy will receive all Drug Orders created by clinicians during a patient’s visit. These Orders will appear in the Pharmacy app either in the “Active Prescriptions” or “All Prescriptions” tab. The Order will contain the drug name, formulation, route, duration, and quantity prescribed. Each Order may contain more than one prescribed medication. If there is more than one prescribed medication in the Order, each can be dispensed independently of each other.  

If the prescribed medication or formulation needs to be modified, the pharmacy should ask the clinician to update drug order.  Currently the pharmacy staff does not have the permission to change the drugs or formulation of prescriptions created by the clinicians (this is PIH specific).  

In the pharmacy, the Prescriptions can have the following statuses: 

• Active: At least one medication in the Order has not been fully dispensed and is not paused  

• Completed: All medications have been dispensed 

• Paused: At least one medication in the Order is Paused and all others are either dispensed, closed, or completed 

• Expired: The Order is expired after 90 days, and it has not been dispensed 

• Closed: All medications have been closed 

The Pharmacy can take the follow actions within the pharmacy app:  

• Dispense: This will indicate the medication has been dispensed to the patient. The Quantity will be auto populated with the Quantity prescribed. This can be edited to a number less than what was prescribed (in the case of stock outs). The Quantity cannot be changed to an amount that is greater than what was prescribed.  

• Pause: This will indicate the medication is not being dispensed right now but will be dispensed at a later date.  

• Close: This will indicate that this medication is not going to be dispensed.  

Pharmacists can print out medication labels to stick on bags or bottles that contain the medication being dispensed.