Chapter 3

Prescribe/eRx

A prescription isn’t dressed properly until it wears an indication.

Michael Van Ornum

This chapter analyzes workflow number 1—Prescribe/eRx from two perspectives: processes and data elements. The top-down analysis is straightforward: Using the dataflow diagram (DFD) as the main tool, we isolate the Prescribe workflow from the higher-level diagram DFD 0 (see previous chapter) and decompose it into lower-level processes—DFD 1. These processes in turn are then dissected into lower subprocesses and activities as DFD 1.x ...

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