Add a Medication Button to a Template

The Medication button allows you to enter a patient's prescription medications into a template. When a Medication button is added to the template it interacts with the STI Health Portal and First DataBank to provide up-to-date medications, medication information, as well as drug interaction warnings. You also have the ability to determine what type of prescription information outputs for the medication button, thereby allowing the flexibility to have medication buttons that act independently of each other when using multiple medication buttons in a chart template. Use the following steps to place a medication button in a template.

1. Open the Template that you want to add a Medication button to.
    

2. In the Template Editor, click Medication.
    

3. Position the cursor where you want the Medication button to appear in the template.
    

4. Click the button.
    

5. The button will then appear in the template. Right-click the button.
    

6. In the Medication Button Properties dialog, you have the ability to determine the verbiage that precedes the various types of medication information that is outputted when prescription events are configured via the medication button, as well as whether or not you want to hide this information for this medication button. Check the Hide box next to the medication output information you would like to hide for this medication button, and then click into the corresponding fields and enter or modify the verbiage for the Heading or for each type of prescription event as needed.
    

7. In the Medication Button # field, enter or select an ID Number for the medication button.
   
   NOTE: When configuring multiple medication buttons in a chart template, each medication button requires a unique Medication Button # to act independently of each other and to output the proper medication information configured. The Medication Button # is attached to each medication event that is configured via that particular button and will only output medication information that was entered through that button.
   
   
    

8. When finished, click the OK button.