Patent ID: 7979288

Claim:
A method for creating a prescription on a computer having a screen display comprising: inputting at least a portion of medical prescription text for a medication into a single interface field on said screen display wherein said text is provided as continuous text and includes information regarding at least two of the following: medication name, dosage, route, frequency or quantity; parsing the received portion of medical prescription text; providing prompts and/or hints for completing the medical prescription text as said text is input into said computer; providing an additional interface field for each of a medication name, dosage, route, frequency and quantity on said screen display subsequent to parsing of said medical prescription text in said single interface field, wherein each field separately acts as a prompt to complete the medical prescription text and to correct the parsing of the medical prescription text; validating the medical prescription text with respect to at least one of the dosage, route, frequency or quantity, wherein validating said medical prescription text comprises comparing said medical prescription text with at least one of information stored in a database regarding a patient and information stored in a database regarding said medication; and providing a warning if the medical prescription text does not match information stored in the database regarding the patient or the information stored in the database regarding said medication.