Clinical Tasks

Prescribe Medications

PCC EHR has a complete suite of tools for managing medications and prescriptions.

As you create prescriptions in PCC eRx, you can review and update patient medications, track and use a family's preferred pharmacies, review a patient's drug benefit plan and pick medications accordingly, and review alerts related to a patient's drug allergies, drug-to-drug interactions, and other circumstances. PCC eRx is endlessly customizable, and you can use powerful features like weight-based dosing and built-in dosing statements to improve your patient workflow, save time, and provide better care.

Watch and read the content below to learn more about PCC eRx and medications in PCC EHR.

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  • Manage Prescription Activity on the Rx Queue

    The Rx Queue is a one-stop task queue where you can review and process pending prescriptions, sign off on agent prescriptions, respond to pharmacy renewal and change requests, and review and resolve prescription errors.

  • Review and Update Medication History

    At every visit, you ask patients what medications they are on. In PCC EHR, you can quickly review and update the chart record of a patient's medications. Special medication history features and tools make prescribing faster.

  • Prescribe Medications

    Learn the basics of how to prescribe in PCC eRx, including how to handle common prescribing scenarios. Plus, get an overview of PCC eRx's many prescribing features designed with pediatrics, prescribers, and safety in mind.

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  • Allergies

    PCC EHR tracks allergies in each patient’s chart. When the chart is up-to-date, PCC EHR can automatically warn you about drug allergies as you prescribe, create lists of patients based on allergies, and display custom alerts to users whenever they work with a patient’s chart.

  • Set Up PCC eRx User Access

    Before a clinician or staff member can prescribe medications or modify a patient's medication information, they must have PCC eRx enabled on their user account in PCC EHR. Follow the procedure in this article below to enable PCC eRx for providers or any staff at your practice.

  • PCC eRx Component Reference

    Special tips and features of each component in the PCC eRx section of a patient's chart.

  • Create Custom Medications and Sentences in PCC eRx

    Your practice can create custom medication entries to make it easier to find and prescribe non-standard prescriptions or instructions, such as the "magic mouthwash" compound, a particular piece of medical equipment or supply, or your practice's preferred albuterol inhaler dosing.

  • Optimize PCC eRx Searches with Shortcuts and Hiding

    You can save time when you search for a drug in PCC eRx by creating search short cuts, hiding unused drugs and dosing statements, and following some best practices when you search.

  • Adjust Safety Checking in PCC eRx

    You can adjust safety checking in PCC eRx to meet the needs of your practice. Overview As you prescribe, PCC eRx alerts you to safety concerns with the selected medication based on known interactions, the patient, and their history. PCC eRx presents warnings for drug, food, allergy, and disease interactions, duplicate therapies, and inadequate or […]

  • PCC eRx Prescription Favorites

    PCC eRx has the ability to keep track of the medications you most commonly prescribe as “favorites”. Selecting from a list of favorites can save you quite a bit of time as you prescribe. You can add favorites on-the-fly as you prescribe, or you can opt to allow PCC eRx to automatically adjust your list […]

  • Work with Pharmacies

    Find and select a pharmacy while you prescribe, see where prescriptions were sent and dispensed, and manage patient pharmacies.

  • Prescribe Controlled Substances

    Only registered users can send electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS), but anyone with permission to create prescriptions can prepare and edit them.

  • Register for EPCS

    After a brief registration process, you can send electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS) from PCC eRx.

  • Install and Set Up the Authy App

    The Authy app turns your smartphone into a secure password generator for taking certain actions on your PCC system. Secure Authy passwords are used in conjunction with your regular PCC password to provide an extra layer of security for your account. This article covers how to install and set up the Authy app on your smartphone and tailor notifications to your preference.

  • Manage Your EPCS Account, Tokens, and Password

    After registering for electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), you can manage your EPCS account and authentication tokens in the Exostar Token Management tool. You can also reset your EPCS password with help from an eRx Administrator.

  • Check Prescription Pricing and Insurance Coverage While You Prescribe

    When you prepare a prescription, you can see how much it will cost out-of-pocket, whether it requires prior authorization, and if there are more cost-effective alternatives.

  • Resend a Prescription

    If a pharmacy is unable to fill your patient’s prescription, use the “Resend” button to reroute the prescription to a different pharmacy. You can also use the “Resend” button to fix mistakes on a prescription and resend it to the original pharmacy. Retracing Your Steps There are several places you can see all versions of […]

  • PCC eRx My Settings Reference

    Use the My Settings page to tailor PCC eRx to your personal preferences and workflows.