Patent ID: 7483839

Claim:
A prescription generated by a computer-implemented prescription creation system having a program stored on a computer-readable medium, the system being for use by a prescriber to create an electronic prescription prescribing a drug to treat a condition exhibited by a patient at a point-of-care, said electronic prescription comprising a patient identifier, at least one prescribed drug and at least one drug quantifier for the prescribed drug and being usable by a pharmacist to dispense the prescribed drug or drugs, said prescription creation system comprising: a. a prescription creation screen having prescriber-operable data capture devices including: i. a patient identifier data capture device for capturing patient-identifying data; ii. a prescribed drug data capture device for capturing prescribed drug identification data; iii. at least one drug quantifier capture device for capturing drug quantification data; iv. a patient condition data capture device to capture patient condition data regarding said patient condition exhibited by said patient whereby said electronic prescription further comprises said patient condition data; and b. a library of prescribable drug data accessible by one or more of said data capture devices from said prescription management screen to display multiple prescribable drugs; c. a prescription output screen device to output a completed prescription; d. a printer to print the completed prescription; and e. at least one preferred usage data display including a personal-preference drug selection list for each system user wherein the system tracks preferred data usage by each system user and updates said preferred usage data displays automatically; wherein the completed prescription includes the patient condition and identification and quantification data regarding a drug prescribed by the prescriber user for treatment of the patient condition, the patient condition and drug data being captured into the prescription by the data capture devices.