DrFirst offers a feature for creating a split prescription, in which a prescribing clinician can choose to send the same prescription to two different pharmacies. Instructions for adding a pharmacy are included below.

In the Prescribe Medication widget, click the Split button next to the pharmacy

Clicking to Split the prescription will open an additional Pharmacy 2 dropdown. Click to select the second pharmacy. If the patient only has one pharmacy attached to their account, you’ll see a red error message stating, “Pharmacies must be different for a split prescription”:

You can quickly and easily add a second pharmacy at this point by clicking into the Pharmacy 2 dropdown field and selecting to Browse Pharmacy

Enter search criteria for the pharmacy – the first three letters of the pharmacy name, zip code, and state are sufficient enough – and use an available filters for list, pharmacy type and pharmacy options. Then click Search.

Results matching your search criteria will display below. Simply click on any pharmacy to add it to the patient’s record

The second pharmacy will now be listed in the Pharmacy 2 field

Splitting the prescription to two pharmacies will give additional options for duration, quantity, refills, and whether substitutions are permitted for both pharmacies. Make any changes here before clicking to Review the prescription.

In the Review Prescriptions widget, both prescriptions for each pharmacy will be listed

And both prescriptions will be visible in Pending Prescriptions (if Save Pending Rx is chosen)

Additional Information About Attaching a Pharmacy

There are two areas where you can choose the pharmacy. First, when entering DrFirst for a new patient, click “Please set the default pharmacy” link located within the notice above the Patient widget:

Second, by clicking the spyglass/search icon, as indicated below:

In the Select Pharmacy widget, set your search criteria by selecting which list to search from, pharmacy type and options, and address. For best results if using Practice List or All Lists, use only the first three letters of the pharmacy and the first three digits of the zip code:

-Practice List contains only those pharmacies located within the first three digits of the practice’s zip code

-Favorites List contains only the pharmacies that the user has previously selected to be in their favorites list

-All Lists contain all available pharmacies in the Rcopia4 database (default option)

You’ll see a listing of pharmacies within the search criteria

Click anywhere within the row to add the pharmacy to the patient’s record.

Review the pharmacy “type” before making your selection. You can hover your mouse over any of the options to see a tooltip of what type of pharmacy the listing is.

[C] = the pharmacy accepts controlled substance prescriptions electronically

[E] = the pharmacy accepts electronic prescriptions

[R] = the pharmacy is a retail pharmacy

[MO] = the pharmacy is a mail order pharmacy

Once the pharmacy has been added to the patient, you’ll be routed back to the Patient Info screen

Up to five (5) pharmacies can be stored for a patient, which will be saved in the Pharmacy dropdown within the Patient Info widget