Save Prescription Protocols Once, Apply With One Click

Every solo doctor has their go-to protocols.

• The viral fever combo — Paracetamol, an antihistamine, sometimes a cough suppressant
• The acidity protocol — Pantoprazole, Domperidone, sometimes an antacid syrup
• The diabetic followup — Metformin, sometimes Glimepiride, vitamin support
• The hypertension starter — Telmisartan or Amlodipine, with monitoring instructions

You've been writing these for years. The names of the medicines, the dosing patterns, the duration — it's all in your head. But you still type it out fresh, patient after patient, every single day.

That's ten minutes of typing repeated 30 times a day. Five hours a week of repeating yourself.

Prescription templates fix this. Here is how they work in DRP-OS Clinic.

Build a template once

You create a template just like you'd write a normal prescription. Pick the medicines, set the dosing pattern, set the duration, add the diet advice, add the lifestyle notes. Save it with a recognizable name: "Viral Fever — Adult" or "Acidity Standard" or "Diabetes Followup."

That's a 5-minute investment, once.

Apply it in one click

Now when a new patient walks in with viral fever:

1. Open their visit
2. Click "Apply template"
3. Pick "Viral Fever — Adult"
4. The entire prescription appears, pre-filled
5. Adjust anything specific to this patient (allergies, age, weight)
6. Finalise and print

Total time: 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes.

Templates are smart, not rigid

A template is a starting point, not a straitjacket. Once applied, you can:

• Remove a medicine if this patient doesn't need it
• Add an extra medicine for a comorbidity
• Adjust the dose (paediatric dosing, kidney function adjustments)
• Change the duration
• Customize the diet and lifestyle notes

The template gives you 90 percent of the prescription. The remaining 10 percent is patient-specific tweaking. Both fast.

Build a library over time

Most clinics end up with 30 to 80 templates after a year. A representative library:

Category	Templates
Acute conditions	Viral fever (adult, paediatric), strep throat, gastritis, food poisoning, migraine, allergic rhinitis
Chronic — initiation	Diabetes (new diagnosis), hypertension (new), thyroid (new), PCOD initial
Chronic — followup	Diabetes 3-month review, hypertension stable, thyroid stable, PCOD followup
Skin	Eczema mild, fungal infection, acne, scabies
Paediatric	Viral fever child, ear infection, worms, immunization recovery
Womens health	UTI, irregular periods, postnatal recovery, pregnancy prenatal

Each template is a few minutes to create. Over a year, you build a library worth hundreds of hours of saved typing.

Share templates across multiple doctors

If your clinic has multiple doctors, templates can be shared. The senior doctor sets up the clinic's standard protocols. Junior doctors apply them, building consistency in patient care across the practice. Or each doctor can have their own private templates.

Update once, applies forever

Three years from now, evidence changes. A new guideline comes out. You update your hypertension template once. Every future prescription using that template reflects the new protocol. Templates evolve with medicine.

Multi-language templates

Each template prints in your patient's preferred language. The same "Diabetes Followup" template prints in English for one patient, Hindi for another, Sanskrit for an Ayurveda patient. You build the template once, the system handles the language switching.

Bundling diet and lifestyle

The most useful template feature is that templates include the diet and lifestyle instructions, not just the medicines. Your "Acidity Standard" template includes:

• 3 medicines with proper dosing
• Diet: "Avoid spicy food, caffeine, citrus fruits for 14 days. Eat smaller meals 5x a day instead of 3 big meals."
• Lifestyle: "Don't lie down within 2 hours of eating. Sleep with head slightly elevated."
• Followup: "Return in 14 days if symptoms persist or worsen."

One click, all of this prints. The patient gets your full treatment plan, not just a list of pills.

The real impact

A solo doctor seeing 30 patients a day, with about 20 of them being repeat conditions, saves roughly:

• 4 to 5 hours of typing per week
• 30 to 40 percent fewer prescription errors (no more "did I forget the antacid?")
• Better protocol adherence across patients with the same condition
• Faster consultation, so you can either see more patients or spend more time talking with each one

Try it

Prescription templates are included in the starter plan at ₹1,499 per month.

Free 24-hour trial. Start here.

Want help converting your existing paper protocols into digital templates? WhatsApp +91 9560793054.