Digital prescription generation and delivery

Purpose

1. Automate digital prescription creation and secure delivery for orthoptic patients post-consultation, eliminating manual data entry and reducing human error.

2. Automated prescription generation uses patient diagnostic data, clinical recommendations, and predefined templates to create legible, compliant digital prescriptions.

3. Automates secure digital delivery via SMS, email, patient portals, or third-party pharmacy platforms to ensure real-time access for patients and providers.

4. Automation enables orthoptists to streamline clinical workflow, ensuring timely prescription issuance, audit trails, and integration with electronic health records (EHR).

Trigger Conditions

1. Completion of patient consultation and approval of treatment plan inside EHR or clinical management platform.

2. Automated trigger by practitioner’s digital signature or physician authentication event.

3. Initiation when diagnostic results (e.g., vision measurements) are uploaded or verified.

4. Automated scheduling for post-appointment prescription sends (e.g., follow-up care).

Platform Variants

1. DocuSign

• Feature/Setting: Automate template-based document creation and e-signature request via "Envelopes: create and send Envelope" API.
  
• Sample Configuration: Use patient/practitioner data to auto-populate fields, trigger API on EHR completion.
  

2. Twilio SMS

• Feature/Setting: Automate SMS delivery of secure prescription links with "Messages API".
  
• Sample Configuration: Configure API to send unique prescription URLs directly after DocuSign finish event.
  

3. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Automates email prescription delivery using "Mail Send API".
  
• Sample Configuration: Script triggers automated emails with PDF attachments or secure download links.
  

4. Google Cloud Healthcare API

• Feature/Setting: Automates insertion of prescription records in FHIR stores.
  
• Sample Configuration: Use FHIR Prescription resource, add/update endpoint after digital signing.
  

5. Salesforce Health Cloud

• Feature/Setting: Automate case record update and patient notification with "Process Builder" or "Apex Triggers".
  
• Sample Configuration: Event-based automation to create/post messages to patient/community feed.
  

6. Microsoft Power Automate

• Feature/Setting: Automates workflow linking SharePoint, Outlook, and EHR; use "Automated Flows".
  
• Sample Configuration: Flow triggers on document approval, routes document via email or Teams.
  

7. Zapier

• Feature/Setting: Automate integration between EHR, DocuSign, and Gmail using multi-step Zaps.
  
• Sample Configuration: Trigger chain: EHR completion → DocuSign → Gmail (PDF send).
  

8. AWS Lambda

• Feature/Setting: Automate serverless function for PDF prescription generation and storage.
  
• Sample Configuration: Lambda triggers on S3 upload or API Gateway event, generates and archives prescription.
  

9. Box

• Feature/Setting: Automate secure storage and access sharing using "Upload File" and "Create Shared Link" API endpoints.
  
• Sample Configuration: Prescription auto-saved to Box, link sent by automator flow.
  

10. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Automate internal notifications to orthoptist team via "chat.postMessage" API.
  
• Sample Configuration: Send confirmation of automated prescription sent event in clinical channel.
  

11. MedTunnel

• Feature/Setting: Automate secure medical record/prescription delivery.
  
• Sample Configuration: API used to share prescriptions with pharmacies or referring providers.
  

12. PandaDoc

• Feature/Setting: Automate document creation and e-signature via "Document Create" and "Send for Signature" APIs.
  
• Sample Configuration: Orthoptist template filled and triggered by EHR event.
  

13. Jotform

• Feature/Setting: Automates form submission to PDF, scheduled email using "PDF Editor" and integrations.
  
• Sample Configuration: Patient prescription details input, PDF autogenerates and emails.
  

14. Adobe Sign

• Feature/Setting: Automates digital signature workflows using "POST /agreements" API.
  
• Sample Configuration: Prescription generation and e-signature automated post-consult.
  

15. NetSuite

• Feature/Setting: Automates patient record and prescription update via SuiteScript automation.
  
• Sample Configuration: Prescription module triggers automated updating and patient email.
  

16. TigerText

• Feature/Setting: Automates delivery of prescription info via secure-messaging API.
  
• Sample Configuration: API delivers prescription to patients/providers securely and trackably.
  

17. Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive)

• Feature/Setting: Automates document upload and secure email send using Google Apps Script.
  
• Sample Configuration: Create automation that emails PDF from Drive to patient.
  

18. Freshdesk

• Feature/Setting: Automates prescription-related support ticket creation or resolution via webhook.
  
• Sample Configuration: Prescription send event triggers support notification.
  

19. CareCloud

• Feature/Setting: Automates integration with EHR records and patient communication modules.
  
• Sample Configuration: Prescription post triggers patient portal message.
  

20. QuickBase

• Feature/Setting: Automates case management workflow and notifications using automation rules.
  
• Sample Configuration: Digital prescription status triggers follow-up reminders and team alerts.
  

21. Mailgun

• Feature/Setting: Automates transactional email delivery for digital prescription attachments.
  
• Sample Configuration: Email triggers automatically post-prescription generation.
  

Benefits

1. Automates manual tasks for orthoptists, boosting productivity and accuracy.

2. Automated digital delivery accelerates access to prescriptions, enhancing patient care experience.

3. Automation ensures compliance with secure delivery protocols and medical documentation standards.

4. Reduces prescription errors through auto-population and template automation.

5. Automated audit trails improve traceability and accountability.

6. Integrates seamlessly with existing orthoptic clinical workflow for frictionless automation of repetitive actions.

7. Supports automatable scalability for eye care providers adapting to higher patient volumes.