Guidance on displaying medication side effects in pharmacy workflow

[olewandowski (Oliver Lewandowski)]

Hi everyone,

We’re working on a feature to display medication side effects to clinicians (in the Order Form) and dispensers (in the Dispense Prescription panel) during the pharmacy workflow.

Before we start building, I wanted to check if anyone has done something similar or knows of existing modules/approaches we could leverage.

What we need:

1. Display side effects for medications in the patient order form and dispensing details.
2. Classify side effects as “common” or “severe/unusual.”
3. A way for admins to manage/update this side effect list (as it will grow/change over time).
4. A configuration setting to toggle the visibility of these side effects specifically for the dispenser view.

Questions:

1. Does MRS have any built-in support for drug metadata/attributes like this?
2. Are there existing modules (or work-in-progress) that handle drug information/side effects?
3. For the data model, would you recommend extending the Drug entity, using Concept mappings, or creating a dedicated module?

Thanks in advance for any pointers!

[ibacher (Ian Bacher)]

@olewandowski

Does MRS have any built-in support for drug metadata/attributes like this?

No

@olewandowski

Are there existing modules (or work-in-progress) that handle drug information/side effects?

Not that I’m aware of, but there may be something out there.

@olewandowski

For the data model, would you recommend extending the Drug entity, using Concept mappings, or creating a dedicated module?

I’d probably think about this as a dedicated module.