Medications Usage

The systems integrated use a separate management of the Current Medications and the Prescriptions lists.

Current Medications List is a clinician maintained list of medications - supplied via MedicationStatement Note:

• current medication list only contains drug, dose, route information (no administrative prescription information)
• when prescriptions are written items are automatically added to the current medications list
• current medications list can contain items related to scripts that have been deleted

Prescriptions List is a record of printed prescriptions - supplied via MedicationOrder Note:

• prescription list contains printed script information including script number, approvals, PBS status, regulation 24 etc.