How prescribing works
Every prescription follows the same steps, however you integrate:1
Intake patient
Find the patient, or add them. Photon matches what you pass to an existing record before it creates a new one.
2
Draft prescription
Each drug becomes a draft with its sig and quantity. Photon screens it against the patient’s allergies, medications and conditions, and checks it against their benefits, as it’s written.
3
Sign prescription
The prescriber reviews the draft and signs it. Repeat for each prescription on the order.
4
Send order
The signed prescriptions go out together as one order. Choosing a pharmacy now is optional.
5
Shop order
Compare prices for the whole order across pharmacies. By default, Photon texts the patient a link to shop.
6
Fulfill order
Route the order to the chosen pharmacy. Nothing is routed until a pharmacy is chosen.
Who drafts
The prescriber always signs and sends in Prescribe. What changes between integrations is who does the drafting:
The more your product drafts, the less the prescriber types. See Choose an integration.
Where the prescriber works
App
Photon’s own web app. Sign in and prescribe, or follow a deep link from your product, an email or a text.
Embed
Inside your product, with React components, an iframe or the JavaScript client.