Pharmacy Details - Checking

This section monitors whether a patient is coming back for more medication too early or too late, based on the previous quantity and dosage:

Complete as outlined below:

• No. days early allowed - Enter the number of days early you consider acceptable.
• No. days late allowed - Enter the number of days late you consider acceptable.

A warning displays on screen if you dispense medication outside of this range.

This section allows you to monitor the Pharmacy Manager product file's dosages based on the product's literature:

Complete as outlined below:

• Check dosage
• Warn if product has no information for dosage checking
• Warn if directions supplied are ambiguous for dosage checking

This section allows you to monitor how interactions and contraindications are managed within Pharmacy Manager:

Complete as outlined below:

• Default interaction search length (months) - Enter the number of months you wish the system to check patient records when it does an interaction search.
• When a contraindication occurs, treat conditions with an unknown state as if - Choose whether the system treats all patients who have no 'Conditions' information entered (therefore with an unknown state) as having all conditions, or having no conditions.

Complete as outlined below:

• Only allow pharmacists role access? - Select to restrict access to the clinical check module to pharmacists only.

  Training Tip - The job role is set in Tools - User Settings - User Account Management.

• Prevent editing of directions - Select to prevent editing of directions on the Dispensing screen after the clinical check has taken place.

This section allows you to determine how NMS alerts are managed:

Complete as outlined below:

• Enable New Medicine Service - NMS alerts for candidate patients can be enabled by selecting Enable new medicine service. Alternatively, press Alt + S on your keyboard.
• Alert Type - Set the alert type:
  • Display onscreen alert
  • Print reminder label

Select Hypertension case-finding to enable hypertension case-finding labels.