Please note: This guidance has been superseded by the Implementation guide for digitial medicines, which contains up-to-date information.
Element: recorder
Recommendation: use
recorder as a required business element for most MVP implementations to be used as an additional point of contact for the pharmacy, together with the requester for any queries related to the medication request.
Requester and Recorder combination examples
| Scenario | Requester | Recorder |
|---|---|---|
| Prescibing clinician Fred is requesting new medication | Fred | Fred |
| Prescibing clinician Fred is re-ordering previous medication he previously prescribed | Fred | Fred |
| Prescibing clinician Jane is re-ordering previous medication, without any clinical changes, that Fred previously prescribed | Fred | Jane |
| Prescibing clinician Jane is re-ordering previous medication that Fred previously prescribed, with clinical changes | Jane | Jane |
| Nurse Rodger is ordering medication prescribed by Fred | Fred | Rodger |
| Pharmacy technical Sally is re-ordering medication prescribed by Fred | Fred | Sally |