Medication, pharmacist and patient information shown for demonstration purposes only.
MedAdvisor for Pharmacy allows pharmacists to complete a Diabetes MedsCheck consultation with a patient who meets the eligibility criteria. Please follow these steps:
- Select Record Services in the left-hand menu
Alternatively, if you are accessing MedAdvisor for Pharmacy web-version select Patients in the left-hand menu.
- Search for the patient by surname, first name, address, medicare number or date of birth OR select from the Recently dispensed customers list OR select Add patient to manually enter the patients details
- Next to the patient's details, select Record Service
- View the Patient Information, including any patients notes, consultation history, medication list and more. Select the CPA drop-down and select Diabetes MedsCheck
- Select PDF Consent to view and print the Medscheck Patient Consent. Patients can sign, date and print their name on the form as well as sign on behalf of someone they are caring for
- Under Patient Information, make sure all compulsory fields are filled out e.g DOB
- Under Consulting pharmacist details, today's date is pre-populated but can be changed. Select your profile from the Pharmacist drop-down
- Make sure PPA submission required is ticked and your account is linked to the Pharmacy Programs Administrator via Service Settings
Please note: If the above selection is NOT ticked, you will need to claim these services manually via the PPA.
- Under Health practitioner details, select Patient's prescriber as Usual prescribers or Other and select the prescriber from the Health practitioner drop down. If the desired doctor or healthcare professional doesn't appear in Usual prescribers, click "Other" and then click + to add a new doctor or healthcare professional manually.
- Under Eligibility and consent answer the questions by selecting Yes or No
- Answer the below question from the drop-down selection
- Select Yes or No to mark that you have record consent and select Upload consent form to attach the document from the PDF download above.
- Select Lifestyle screening (optional) to open the section and complete the answers
- Select Health check (optional) to open the section and complete the health check for each section you have selected e.g Blood pressure
- Under Allergies / Adverse reactions answer the below question and select the applicable selections.
- Select Underlying medical conditions (optional) to open the section and select the applicable conditions and add notes
- Under the heading Medicine list, you will see the patient medications that have been dispenses at your pharmacy. These can be edited by selecting the pencil icon or deleted by selecting the trash can icon
- Select + Add new medicine to manually enter the patients' drug name, doctor, dosage instructions and notes
Please note: Repeat this step for medications the patient is currently taking.
- Under Action Plan, select the Issue, Outcome and select if any Follow Up is required and add any notes
- Select + Add another issue to repeat the above step, as required
- View the PPA end user declaration at the bottom of the form
- At the bottom and the top of the form you may select Delete, Save Draft and as long as you have filled out all compulsory fields, select Complete
You will receive a notification immediately letting you know if the claim was successful and that the record has uploaded to the PPA.
- At the top of the form you can download, view and print the PDF GP Report and the PDF MedsCheck Consumer Report
Please note: You must allow pop-ups to access these above reports.
- The consultation will appear in the patients' Consultation History with the status Completed, Draft, Deleted or Ineligible (if the patient did not meet the required eligibility criteria).