Affected users: Prescribing Healthcare Professionals (Physicians, Nurse Practitioners) practicing in Ontario.
Task affected: Medication Management — Prescription module. Specifically, looking up Limited Use (LU) reasoning codes while selecting and prescribing restricted medications.
Impact: Administrative friction and clinical workflow interruption. Having to leave the EHR interface to look up LU codes delays prescription completion and adds unnecessary friction during patient consultations.
Current state: Prescribers must open an external browser window to consult the Ontario Drug Benefit Formulary or third-party lookup tools (e.g., lucodes.ca) to find the correct LU code before manually entering it into MYLE.
Competition consideration: N/A