Searching Prescriptions

Genie allows you to quickly search the database for:

For example, to search for all patients taking an ACE-Inhibitor:

Open the Patients list by selecting Open > Patients.

Click on the Rx button

to open the following window

This window allows you to search by Brand Name, Generic Name or Class. To search for ACE-Inhibitors, click on the Class radio button and the following window will appear

Enter the Brand Name of any ACE-Inhibitor and click OK. A window will appear asking you to select the specific class that you wish to search on

This will enter the Class to search for in the previous window as shown below:

Click OK, and all patients on an ACE-Inhibitor will be displayed.

Note: To display all patients NOT on an ACE-Inhibitor, tick the Find Exceptions checkbox.

You may then want to find all patients who are on the ACE-Inhibitor and Warfarin. To do this, click on the Rx button again. This time, click on the Generic radio button and enter Warfarin in the search field.

Tick the Search Current Selection Only checkbox. This tells Genie to only search amongst the list of patients already displayed.

You can use this function in combination with other searches. For example you may want to find all diabetics who are NOT taking an ACE-Inhibitor. To do this you would first search for diabetics to display them in the patient list. Then do the ACE-Inhibitor search, ticking both the Search Current Selection Only and Find Exceptions checkbox.

You can also limit the search only to those prescriptions which have been printed on or after a particular date.

Polypharmacy

In this same window you can search for patients taking more than x number of prescriptions. To do this, click on the Polypharmacy tab and enter the number of prescriptions in the search field.

Note: You can also limit this search to just the current selection patients.