Vision 3 therapy and Emergency Care Summary

To include a medication in ECS

Vision 3 sends Acute prescriptions and Issues of Repeat Prescriptions to ECS. Acute prescriptions are included regardless of whether they have been printed or sent to eAMS provided their Date Prescribed value is within the last 30 days. Issues of Repeat Prescriptions are sent regardless of whether they have been printed or sent to eAMS provided their Date of Issue is within the last 12 months.
Note that Repeat Prescription Masters are never sent to ECS – only issues.

To include a medication in ECS but not generate a prescription

In Vision 3 this can be achieved by creating an Acute medication or a Repeat Prescription Master and un-checking the ‘Print Script’ check box.
For an acute medication this will be available to ECS on the next upload, with the time constraints as above. For Repeat Prescription Masters the user must select the prescription and Issue from it (F9 once) as the issue will appear in ECS.
Items with the check box ‘Print Script’ un-checked will not be printed or sent to eAMS.

To include medication prescribed outside the practice in ECS

Vision 3 offers a drop down selection box on new medication forms for ‘Source of Drug’. This is to allow practices to record items supplied outside the practice on the local system and thus inform decision support as well as providing a more complete record.
All Acute medications, regardless of the value for ‘Source of Drug’, will be sent to ECS if within the 30 day time limit. If a medication remains current for a patient after 30 days a new Acute will need to be added if still required for ECS. It is good practice to append the Dosage field with text indicating the source of the drug, as ECS does not import or display this value.
Repeat Master Medications with a Source of Drug value of anything other than ‘In Practice’ cannot be issued from, and thus will not be displayed in ECS. As a workaround for this users can create a new Repeat Prescription Master and leave the Source of Drug field as ‘In Practice’, un-check the ‘Print Script’ check box and append the Dosage value with text to indicate the source of the drug. This master should then be issued, and the issue will remain valid for ECS for up to 1 year.