Viewing patient allergies and intolerances (new prescriber)

Note: This information applies to the new prescriber (see New prescriber).

Although you can view a basic list of allergies and intolerances in a patient’s medical summary, you can view more detailed information about allergies and intolerances only from the Medications and Allergies window.

Steps

Open the Medications and Allergies window: On any window related to the patient (including a SOAP note or the medical summary), right-click and choose View Medication List. The Medications and Allergies window opens with the patient’s active allergies displayed in the lower left pane.

Note: If you are viewing a patient’s medical summary, and you click an allergy to view more detailed information, the allergy displays in the Medications and Allergies window.

By default, a patient’s allergies and intolerances display chronologically according to the date they were reported/refuted/updated, in the following order:

Drug allergies (DA)

Drug intolerances (DI)

Non-drug allergies (NDA)

Non-drug intolerances (NDI)

Drug-related allergies and intolerances display with red text. To re-sort the list by the contents of a column, click the column header. For example, to sort the list by how severe the reactions were, click the Severity column header.

To group the allergies and intolerances by category (Drug Allergies, Drug Intolerances, Non-Drug Allergies, and Non-Drug Intolerances), above the list, select the Group by Category check box.

To view the patient’s refuted allergies and intolerances, click the Inactive Allergies tab. To go back to viewing the patient’s active allergies, click the Active Allergies tab.

To view more allergy list columns, click and drag the right border of the allergy list pane, or click and drag the pane’s horizontal scroll bar.

To view detailed information about an allergy or intolerance, in the Active Allergies or Inactive Allergies list, click the allergy. In the right pane, the EMR displays the reaction details.