Adding or editing a patient's height and weight for electronic prescriptions

If your organization uses Dentrix Ascend ePrescribe, and if you are logged in to Dentrix Ascend as a user whose user account has electronic prescriptions enabled, you can specify a patient's height and weight in ePrescribe. To comply with the electronic prescribing dosing requirements for pediatric patients as set forth by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP), the height and weight are required for any patient who is younger than 18 years old.

To add or edit a patient's height and weight in ePrescribe

1. On a patient's Patient Prescriptions page, on the Prescription menu, click (or tap) New Electronic Prescription.

   

   Note: The New Electronic Prescription option is available only if the patient has a status of "New" or "Active."

   The Electronic Prescriptions page opens.

   If you are a proxy user (a user who can prescribe only on behalf of a doctor), the Please select who you are acting on behalf of dialog box appears automatically; otherwise, skip the next step.

   

2. From the Possible Prescribers list, select a provider whose user account has ePrescribe enabled, and then click (or tap) OK.

3. Do one of the following:

   • For a pediatric patient without a height and weight entered - You must enter a height and weight before you can perform any other tasks in this patient's ePrescribe record.

   • For a pediatric patient with a height and weight entered - You can edit the patient's weight and height. Click (or tap) the Expand button in the patient information box (the upper-left box), and then click (or tap) Edit Height and Weight.

     

   • For an adult patient - The patient's height and weight are not required, but you can add or edit them. Click (or tap) the Expand button in the patient information box (the upper-left box), and then click (or tap) Edit Height and Weight.

     

   The Enter Patient's Height and Weight dialog box appears.

   

4. Do the following:

   • To specify the height, select the unit of measure (in or cm) from the Height Unit list, and then enter a value in the Height box.

   • To specify the weight, select the unit of measure (lb or kg) from the Weight Unit list, and then enter a value in the Weight box.

5. Click (or tap) Save.

6. To exit ePrescribe, make sure that all your changes have been saved, and click (or tap) Done. Then, on the message that appears, click (or tap) Confirm.