Prescribing Preferences

Set your warnings for drug doubling, interactions, contraindications and precautions here.

1. From your Vision Anywhere Home screen, select Options - Settings - Prescribing Preferences:

   

2. Select the setting to update and then select from the available list:

   

The options for each section are detailed below:

• Drug Doubling - Notifies you if the item you are prescribing doubles with the patient's other medication by:

  • Same ingredient (default)
  • Same drug family
  • Hide all warnings

• Drug to Drug Interactions:
• Show all warnings - Displays severe, major and minor interactions.
• Severe and major (default) - Displays severe and major interactions.
• Severe only - Displays life-threatening interactions only.

• Contraindications:
  • Patient specific only (default) - Only shows warnings that are triggered by specific clinical entries in the patient record.
  • Show all warnings - Shows all warnings regardless of whether the patient has record of condition or not.
  • Hide all warnings

• Precautions:
  • Patient specific only (default) - Only shows warnings that are triggered by specific clinical entries in the patient record.
  • Show all warnings - Shows all warnings regardless of whether the patient has record of condition or not.
  • Hide all warnings
• Prescriber Warnings - Select On or Off.

Please Note:

• If you are using Vision Anywhere in a shared care setting, repeat prescribing functionality is not available for EMIS registered patients.
• Prescriber warnings are not available for EMIS patients or when offline.
• Prescriber preferences are set by individual users.