# challenges in "dispatching medicine"

**URL:** <https://talk.openmrs.org/t/challenges-in-dispatching-medicine/5286>\
**Category:** Bahmni\
**Created:** [March 14, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/challenges-in-dispatching-medicine/5286 "2016-03-14T11:38:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jteich](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/jteich/32/968_2.png) [@jteich](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/jteich)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/challenges-in-dispatching-medicine/5286/3 "2016-03-22T16:55:06Z")

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Hi, Similar discussions have occurred in a few other forums and offline. As Vinkesh notes, this is not yet prioritized for Bahmni development, but I will make just a few comments:

Your question combines two functions that we have been separating in past OpenMRS discussions:

1. Dispensing: identifying the stock you are taking from – including donated vs. paid; taking medications from stock; reducing the stock count

2. Administration: actually putting the medication in the patient’s body, whether it is a pill, injection, or other

You will find, when you get into administration in detail, that there are other considerations, including:

1. recording that a drug was not given or only partially given at its scheduled time, and why;
2. giving a variable amount of the drug (when the order is, for example, “1-2 tablets”);
3. administering drugs that are ordered “PRN” – only in case of symptoms, e.g., paracetamol only if the patient has a headache.

When you are moving into active design, I’d be happy to discuss further – either here, by phone or in a design meeting.

Jonathan

Links to other discussions:

> [@Drug administration feature on Bahmni](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/drug-administration-feature-on-bahmni/1746):
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> Hello, We intend to introduce the drug administration feature on Bahmni so that a user can capture and get the details of medicines administered to a patient. As part of this, we want to provide the user the capability to indicate whether a drug was administered to a patient. Also we would want to capture details like the drug, dosage, route, duration, time at which the drug was given etc. In addition to this, if a drug that was prescribed was not given, then the reason for that would also need…

> [@Drug dispense and administration in OrderEntryUi](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/drug-dispense-and-administration-in-orderentryui/4212):
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> Hi everyone ! We (@mksd and I) are now starting to dig into the medication order functionality of OpenMRS, and with it the medication dispense and administration. In this post, [Options for OpenMRS drug management](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/options-for-openmrs-drug-management/1719/4)@burke mentions that there is 3 functions to tackle: order dispense administration Looks like point 1 and 2 are addressed by the OrderEntryUi module. (thanks @darius !) Is there any existing module out there to especially handle point 3 ? Or did anyone start to work on anything on …

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