Background Material
The Drug Standards provide physicians, pharmacists and other health care providers with an improved ability to manage complete patient medication profiles across the continuum of care through a jurisdictional Drug Information System (DIS). This domain provides support for prescribing, dispensing, adding other medication to a patient's record, such as physician samples or over-the-counter medications, patient medication queries including contraindications that have previously been identified and managed, Drug queries, checking contraindications such as drug-to-drug interactions, drug-to-allergy interactions or dosage checking and managing prescription status (e.g. prescriptions that are put on hold).