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Clinical Management
Use Clinical to record your consultations with a patient and their clinical details.
Prescribing
Use Prescribing to prescribe medications to your patient, conforming with all requirements and regulations.
Managing and Modifying Current Prescriptions
Brands, Medications, and Strengths (modifying of)

Clinical Management
Use Clinical to record your consultations with a patient and their clinical details.
- Diagnosis Coder
  Use the Diagnosis Coder to associate free-text entries with supplied DOCLE text entries.
- Actions
- Progress Notes
- Prescribing
  Use Prescribing to prescribe medications to your patient, conforming with all requirements and regulations.
  - Creating New Prescriptions
    Use Clinical to write prescriptions.
  - Influenza Vaccinations
  - Drug Interaction Checking
  - Old Scripts
  - Managing and Modifying Current Prescriptions
  - Paperless Electronic Prescribing
  - PBS/RPBS Restricted Benefit Medications
  - Printing Batches of Scripts
  - Drug Protocols
  - Drug Quantity, Duration, and Repeats
  - Prescriptions - Real Time Prescription Monitoring
  - Route of Administration
  - Stored Text (Clinical Glossary)
  - User Defined Preparations (Recipes)
  - Active Ingredient Prescribing (AIP)
    Prescriptions created in MedicalDirector Clinical meet the requirements of the Active Ingredient Prescribing legislation (2019).
- Recalls
- Patient's Medical History
- Investigations
- Immunisations
  Use the Imm. tab to manage a patient's immunisations.
- Preventive Health
  The Preventive Health module provides assistance in identifying and preventing issues and potential problems by making suggestions or recommending actions.
- Assessments
- Cervical Screening
- Obstetrics Module
- Diabetes Module
- Summaries
  Clinical provides ormatted summaries which can be printed for patients.
- Measurements
  The Clinical measurements window displays the history of a patient's various clinical measurements.
- MedicalDirector Care
  Create Care Plans in MedicalDirector.
- Telehealth
  Consult with patients remotely.
- Honeysuckle Health Private Health Insurance Checker
- Tools
- Importing Clinical Data
- Surgical Audit Tool
  Use the Surgical Audit Tool to record information about surgical procedures.

Brands, Medications, and Strengths (modifying of)

Before you begin

Procedure

From within the Clinical Window, select the Current Rx tab.
Select and right-click the medication you wish to modify. Then select from;
- Alternative Products
- Alternative > Brands
- Alternative Strengths
- Single and Multi-Ingredient Products
The following window appears.
- PBS > - Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
- RPBS > - Restricted Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
- B.P.P. > - Brand Price Premium
- T.G.P. > - Therapeutic Group Premium
- S.P.C. - Special Patient Contribution
Via the Alternatives section at the bottom of the window, filter the drug list if desired.
Select the medication you wish to prescribe as the alternative.
Click Prescribe to confirm your selection.
You will be prompted to confirm the drug quantity and repeats. Modify if necessary and click OK to continue.

This prompt will differ slightly, depending on whether you are modifying a limited or regular medication. It is possible to disable the prompt for regular medications via Prescribing Options.
You will be returned to the patient's Current Rx tab.

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