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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  • Prescribe Medications

    Learn how to prescribe medications in PCC eRx.

  • The Rx Queue: Alternate Prescribing Workflows

    Use the Rx Queue in PCC EHR to work with alternate prescription workflows. You can quickly respond to renewal requests, sign agent prescriptions, and finalize pending prescriptions.

  • 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.

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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. Configure a User’s eRx Access in PCC EHR […]

  • EPCS: How to Enroll Prescribers and Prescribe

    Your practice can use PCC EHR to prescribe and renew controlled substances electronically. The EPCS process requires additional security and identity verification measures.

  • PCC eRx Component Reference

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

  • Create Custom Medication Items 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.

  • Customize PCC eRx Alerts and Warnings

    PCC eRx is set up to be very conservative by default. As you prescribe, PCC eRx will alert you to any drug-to-drug interactions or allergy warnings, and other contraindications for the selected medication. You can adjust these alerts to meet the true needs of your practice. You can turn them down a notch, turn them […]

  • 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 […]