Scenario 13

For sites that have Use Rural Prescription Form enabled in V19.2 that would like to continue to use the rural health centre prescription functionality in V21.3.

V19.2 to V21.3 comparison - Rural Health Centre Prescription Form

Rural Prescription Forms in V19.2 have been superseded in Communicare V21.3 by medication requests.

If you were using rural prescriptions in V19.2 and would like to continue to use the rural prescription functionality in V21.3, you will need to enable medication requests and set medication prescription defaults.

Table 1. System Parameter Configuration settings V19.2 compared to V21.3
V19.2 V21.3
Rural Prescription Form
  • When prescribing medications, default medications to regular and for a duration of 365 days and
  • Ability to create a Health Centre Prescription/ Rural Prescription.
Health Centre Prescription defaults
  • When prescribing medications, default medications to regular and for a duration of 365 days.
Medication Request
  • Ability to create a Health Centre Prescription/ Rural Prescription.
  • If Use Rural Prescription Form is enabled in V19.2, when upgraded to V21.3 the Use Health Centre Prescriptions defaults will be enabled.
  • In V21.3 the Use Health Centre Prescriptions defaults option does not enable printing of rural prescription/health centre prescriptions.
  • To be able to print a health centre prescription, you must enable Medication Request

V21.3 Configuration of Medication Requests

System Parameter - Configuration

To enable medication requests:
  1. Select File > System Parameters > Prescription Forms tab.
  2. In the Medication Request Options section, set Enable Medication Request and associated Medication Request configuration parameters.
  3. Select System Parameters > Clinical tab.
  4. Set medication prescription defaults for one or both of the following options:
    • Enforce choice of once off/short course or regular medication
    • Health Centre Prescription defaults
    Tip: These selections result in the following behaviour:
    • If Enforce choice of once off/short course or regular medication is set, at the time of prescribing the provider will be forced to select if the medication is a once off/short course or a regular medication. Use this option if you'd like to force providers to select if the medication is a once off /short course or regular medication and have the medication default to a MIMS-defined duration.
    • If Health Centre Prescription default is set, at the time of prescribing the medication will default to a regular medication and for a duration of 365 days. Use this option if you'd like the medication to default to regular and for a duration of 365 days at the time of prescribing.
    • If both Enforce choice of once off/short course or regular medication and Health Centre Prescription default are enabled, at the time of prescribing the provider will be forced to select if the medication is a once off/short course or a regular medication and the medication will default for a duration of 365 days. Use this option if you'd like to force providers to select if the medication is a once off or regular medication and have the medication default to a duration of 365 days.

    See System Parameters - Clinical for further information.

  5. Click Save iconSave.

Reference Tables - Configuration

  1. Select File > Reference Tables > Encounter Place.
  2. Select the Encounter Place where medications are picked up from.
  3. Set Medication Pickup Location.
  4. Click Save iconClose.

Clinical Record - Configuration

To print a medication request, use the following settings:

  1. Open the patients clinical record.
  2. Set the patients preferred Pickup Location.
    Tip: If the patient's preferred Pickup Location is not set, a medication request cannot be printed.