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What's the easiest way to get a scanned list of patient's medicine into dentally / Medical History?

  • January 12, 2026
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BCDC2023
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We often get patients who turn up to the practice for an appointment without having completed the NHS forms or medical history forms online and we’re stuck becuase they are not confident with using an ipad (or too lazy to type an entire list of medicines).

As a work around we scanned the prescription list to PDF and then attach it to the patient’s correspondance.  

Does anyone have a better suggestion of how this information can be recorded, ideally in the patient’s medical  history?  Is there a way we can manually edit on the desktop computer the list after they have done the medical history (but not at the same time as their appointment as they will run late).  

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Saymon
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  • January 20, 2026

Hey ​@BCDC2023,

Just to add a bit more context from our side, improving how prescriptions and medication-related information is handled is an area our team is actively collecting feedback on. We already have a number of related ideas logged around things like prescription workflows, audits, templates, and making it easier to view and manage prescription data in one place.

I think the manual entry + attachment workaround you’re using is still the best option today. I’ll make sure this use case is linked to those existing requests so it’s considered in the right context. Perhaps ​@RegentStreet85, ​@Anne-Maree Siderides or ​@Lesley Morgan-Barlow can share some insights? 😊


BCDC2023
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  • January 20, 2026

Hi

Ideally, if we can update only the medicine list aspect of a medical history after they have submitted the form online at home on the portal or on the iPad, but it still links to that section with a new date and time showing that update, it’s easier for us to do this with a full size keyboard on a computer rather than doing the whole form again on an iPad or tablet.  
 

Thos would be efficient rather than having no ability to easily update it.  Either that or have the image of the prescription list that has been scanned, appear as a JPEG image within the medical history / medication list.  
 

Don’t restrict it to text only input.