Medication Setup 

Medications are attached to patients using the Medications interface.  The medications must first be entered in the list below before they can be attached to patients.  You can access the medications list from the Main Menu under Lists | Medications or during the process of attaching medications to patients.

The medications on the list above are a mixture of Generic and Brand name, all organized alphabetically.  If you double click on an existing medication, or click Add, the following window will come up:

In the example above, the medication being entered is not generic. You would have to have entered the generic medication first, and then you will be able to enter other medications which share the same generic name. Notes are only allowed on the generic medication, and all other medications attached to that generic will show the same note.

Initial entry of medications into this list will take a little extra time at first until you get a routine established and you get the common medications entered. It helps to divide the task among the assistants and the dentists. The assistants can look up the medication, ensure that the spelling is absolutely correct, and enter the generic and brand names. But they should not enter in any notes. The notes should be entered only by a dentist. The note will usually consist of the therapeutic category, and any precautions or interactions to be aware of. Distilling this information down to a few words is not something the assistants have been trained to do. Every medication should have a note no matter how short so that it can be seen that the doctor did at least look up the medication and check for precautions.