Configuring medication preferences (legacy)

Note: This information applies to the legacy prescriber (see Legacy prescriber).

You can configure default medication preferences for searching, enabling substitutions, and interaction warnings

Note: Only users with administrator authority in Wolf EMR can set clinic-wide defaults. Providers can set their own defaults, which overwrite the clinic defaults.

Medication search options

When users prescribe or enter medications in patient charts, you can set what medication search options are selected by default. You can also choose if medication search matches can include medications that are similar to the search term, even though they may not start with or contain the exact text entered.

Enabling substitutions

By default, the May Substitute Generic option is selected by default when prescribing. You can change the default to instead select the No Substitutions option by default.

Steps

1. From the WorkDesk menu, click Configure > Configure Workdesk . The WorkDesk User Preferences window opens.

Tip: For administrators, from the Wolf EMR home tab, click Configuration > Runtime Configuration tab, and then, at the bottom of the window, click WorkDesk Preferences.

2. Click the Medications tab.
3. To set default medication search options, use the following table to choose an option. If you are setting preferences for yourself, clear the Apply Clinic Setting check box beside any options you are modifying.

To set a default for the following option... Do this...

Starts with vs Contains

In the Medication search list, select the option you want selected by default.

Whether medication search matches can include medication names that are similar to the search term but don’t necessarily start with or contain the exact search term

Select or clear the Use partial match for medication search check box.

How similar medication names must be to be included in search matches In the Degree of similarity for partial search list, select a level.
Include Generic Select or clear the Include Generics in search check box.
Include OTC Select or clear the Include OTC in search check box.
Include IV Select or clear the Include IV in search check box.
4. Choose your "allow substitutions" preference:

Clear the Allow Substitutions Default check box to have the No Substitutions option selected by default when prescribing.

Select the Allow Substitutions Default check box to have the May Substitute Generic option selected by default when prescribing.

5. To set interaction warnings, beside Multum Drug Interaction, clear the Apply Clinic Setting check box and then, in the list, select one of the following options:

Option When the EMR identifies interactions...

Always On

The EMR checks for interactions, and if any are found, you receive a pop-up notification. When selected, the Multum button is not available.

Always Off

The EMR does not check for interactions, and you receive no warnings. When selected, you cannot manually check if there are any interaction warnings. The Multum button is not available.

Manual

The EMR checks for interactions, but does not notify you automatically. Instead, you can view any interaction warnings by clicking the Multum button.

6. Click Save settings and exit .