Drug Recipe Management: Quick Guide

Drug Recipes in MediRecords allow clinicians to save and re-use frequently prescribed drug combinations, making it easier to manage treatments that are used regularly in practice. This feature is especially valuable for providers whose medications are not listed by the PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) or TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration). By creating your own Private Recipes (only available to you) or Practice Recipes (shared across your clinic), you ensure that non-standard or custom drug combinations can still be prescribed safely and consistently.

Once created, recipes can be managed just like standard medications - you can edit, delete, clone, or change sharing permissions as needed. This saves time, reduces the chance of errors, and ensures your team has quick access to the drug protocols they need. Whether you are prescribing Schedule 8 medications, creating complex multi-ingredient treatments, or simply ensuring continuity of care, the Drug Recipe tool supports safer, faster, and more flexible prescribing in MediRecords.

Contents:

1. Drug Recipe Overview
2. Creating a Drug Recipe
3. Editing a Drug Recipe
4. Deleting a Drug Recipe
5. Deactivating & Reactivating a Drug Recipe
6. Cloning a Drug Recipe

Drug Recipe Overview

To access your protocols and recipes, open the Resources page (click More -> Resources) and click Drugs.

Recipes

There are three types of recipes - Private, Practice and Community.

Private recipes are created by clinicians for private use only, and will only be available to the user that created them. Practice recipes, which have been created by local users at the clinic, are shared with, and available to all users at their practice. Community recipes are created by MediRecords users that actively contribute to, and share clinical information with the MediRecords community. Recipes shared with the community are available to all clinicians and practices using MediRecords. 

By default, the Recipes page displays a summary of all recipes that are available for you to use. The summary includes recipes that are private, shared with your practice or the MediRecords community. From the summary page, you can quickly view the recipe Name, Form, Quantity, Restriction, Repeats, Share level, Rating and Status, and who the protocol was Created By.

Creating a Drug Recipe

1. Click More to reveal a drop-down list and Select Resources

2. Click Drug recipes

3. Click Recipes

4. Click New Recipe

5. You will be brought to the New Recipe form. Complete all required fields.

Notes:

1. If your Drug Recipe contains a Schedule 8 medication/ingredient, you must select Yes for Schedule 8 Medication. This will ensure that prescriptions written for this Drug Recipe will pass through the correct Schedule 8 prescribing workflow in line with national and state legislation. 

2. If your Drug Recipe contains a Schedule 8 medication/ingredient, you must include the generic name for the ingredient in the Drug Recipe Name field. This field is scanned by the Real-Time Prescription Monitoring Service during prescribing. 

3. The Form field is a search and select field to assist with finding a specific Form in a big list.

7. To add the ingredients, type the first few letters in the Ingredients box. It will list all matching ingredients. You can also free type into this field. 
Fill the dosage and unit and then click Add.

8. To add more ingredients, follow the same process - lookup/ freetype the Ingredient, enter the Strength and Unit, and click Add.

9. To set Sharing level of Drug Recipe you are trying to create Click box under Share to reveal options

10. To set Restriction of new Drug recipe Click the box under Restriction to reveal options.

11. Your new recipe is now available for use.

Editing a Drug Recipe

Click More to reveal a drop-down list and Select Resources

Click Drugs

Click Recipes

Click the Tick-box next to the name and Click Edit Recipe to open the recipe form

Update the recipe with all the required details

Click Save to apply the changes

Click Yes to acknowledge the recipe has been updated

The recipe has now been updated

Deleting Drug Recipes

Similar to Edit, you can only delete recipes you have created. Check the box next to one of your recipes and click Delete.

*NOTE: Deleting a recipe is a permanent action and cannot be reversed.

You will be greeted with a warning prompt. Click Yes to proceed.
The drug recipe has now been deleted.

Deactivating & Reactivating Drug Recipes

You can manage the active status of drug recipes. To deactivate a recipe, check the box next to it. Click on Update Status and select Deactivate.

The recipe has now been deactivated. To reactivate a recipe, change the Filter to show only Inactive recipes, as shown.
Check the box next to the inactive recipe, click Update Status, and select Activate

The recipe is now active again.

Cloning a Drug Recipe

To clone a recipe, check the box next to one. Click More and select Clone.