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The Prescribe app is Photon’s own web app for prescribers. Sign in and prescribe, with no integration. Later, a deep link from your product can open it on the right patient or order.

Open Neutron

The sandbox. Prescribe for test patients. Nothing is sent to a real pharmacy.

Open Photon

Production. Prescribe for real patients and send to their pharmacies.
⚠️ The sandbox, rx.neutron.health, isn’t live yet. Prescribers sign in with their Photon account, which needs an invite with the Prescriber role. Someone in more than one organization picks one when they sign in.

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Patients, prescriptions and orders

Everything in the app is one of three records: An order holds the work: you start one, add the patient and prescriptions, and send it. See Architecture for how the records fit together.

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Write a prescription

  1. Go to rx.new, or rx.neutron.health in the sandbox. A new order opens.
  2. Find the patient, or add them. Give a mobile phone number: Photon texts the patient when you send.
  3. Under Medication, type the drug and pick the right product.
  4. Fill in Directions (sig), Quantity, Unit, Days supply and Refills. Check Dispense as written if the pharmacy mustn’t substitute. Some values arrive filled in. Check them before you sign.
  5. Review screening. Photon checks the drug against the patient’s allergies, medications and conditions as you type, and shows any alert on the card as Warning or Blocked.
  6. Click Sign. Use Add prescription to add more drugs to the same order, and sign each one.
  7. Click Send prescription to patient.
Drafts save as you go, so you can leave and come back. The app offers to Continue a draft when the patient has one.

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Sent to the patient

By default, the app sends the order to the patient, not to a pharmacy. Photon texts them a link where they compare pharmacies by price, hours, delivery and stock, and pick one. Nothing is routed until they choose, and if a pharmacy can’t fill it, they can switch. After you send, the order shows The patient will choose a pharmacy. If the order already names a pharmacy, for example one your backend set, the button reads Send to that pharmacy instead.

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Invites

Everyone who uses the app needs an invite to your organization. An admin invites them by email and gives them roles: Prescriber to prescribe, plus Admin or Developer for setup. A prescriber’s invite also needs their NPI, phone, fax and address. See Team. For now, manage invites in the dashboard: Neutron · Photon.

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Templates

A template is a saved prescription with the drug, directions and quantity filled in. Admins build them from treatments in your organization’s catalog. A deep link or your backend can start a prescription from a template (templateId), so the prescriber only reviews and signs. See Templates. For now, create and edit templates in the dashboard: Neutron · Photon. The URL always points at the work on screen. Copy it to hand the same order to a colleague, and it opens just as it was. Once the order exists, the link opens that order rather than starting a new one. To open the app on a record from your product, an email or a text, build a deep link.