# Ordering Inpatient Medications for Outpatients (Meds tab)

Take the following steps to write an IMO (inpatient-medications for outpatients) order:

1. Select the Meds tab.

2. Select Action | New Medication

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click to select the area within the Inpatient Medications window, then right click and select New Medication from the shortcut menu.

3. CPRS prompts you to select a location for current activities. Select a current or future scheduled appointment in an authorized hospital/clinic location or create a new visit in an authorized hospital/clinic location using the default time for new visits (NOW).

Note: CPRS allows you to change your clinic selection after you have started an order. However, if you are in the process of placing an order and change clinic locations midstream, CPRS does not reflect this change in the finished order. For example, suppose you are in the process of placing an inpatient medication order for an outpatient using an authorized clinic. Now suppose you change your mind and select instead a clinic that is not authorized for placing these orders. CPRS finishes your order as an IMO order using the authorized clinic. If you are in the process of placing an IMO order from an unauthorized clinic, then change the location to an authorized clinic, CPRS does not display a complete list of inpatient (unit-dose and IV) medications. Instead, it continues to display the list of injectable inpatient medications available for the unauthorized clinic. Furthermore, CPRS does not reflect this clinic change in the finished order.

4. CPRS displays one or more new medication dialogs. These dialogs are site- and sometimes user-specific. For example, the person who manages information resources at your site may have set the ORWDX NEW MEDS parameter (which controls the new-medication order dialog) to display a list of your inpatient and outpatient quick orders.

However, the person who manages information resources at your site could also define a generic dialog for all applicable users.

5. Select an inpatient medication.

Once the name is selected, CPRS d isplays a second dialog to select the items for the rest of the order. In the top field of the second dialog, the generic medication name and the synonym (usually a brand name) are displayed.

6. To place a simple-dose or complex-dose order for this medication, follow the appropriate steps outlined in Ordering Inpatient Medications.

On the Meds tab, CPRS displays IMO orders sorted at the top of the Inpatient Medications pane with corresponding authorized hospital/clinic locations in the Location column.

CPRS displays IMO orders at the top of the Inpatient Medications pane on the Meds tab.

Related topics

Ordering Inpatient Medications for Outpatient (Overview)

Ordering Inpatient Medications for Outpatient (Orders tab)

Sorting the Medications View

Changing or Copying IMO Orders