NextGen Knowledge Center

Generate Expiring Medications Report

You can generate the Expiring Medications report from the Reports panel of the Inventory Management template.

The Expiring Medications report displays the medications that are either expired or about to expire.
You can set the parameters to be included in the Expiring Medications report on the MLTS CR Reports Prompts template for the Expiring Medications report.
  1. On the MLTS Reports template, expand the Reports panel.
  2. Select the Expiring Medications icon.
    The MLTS CR Reports Prompts template for the Expiring Medications report opens.

  3. From the Practice field, select a practice.
    The report defaults to the practice that you are logged on to. However, you can select another practice.
  4. In the Locations panel, select the locations from the Location Name grid.
    The locations move to the Selected Locations grid, and sub-locations for the selected locations appear in the Sub-Location Name grid.
  5. Select the required sub-locations in the Sub-Location Name grid.
    The sub-locations move to the Selected Sub-Locations grid.
  6. In the Medications panel, select the source types from the Source grid.
    The sources move to the Selected Sources grid.
  7. In Default Threshold, change the number of days.
  8. Select the medications from the Drug Name grid.
    The medications move to the Selected Drugs grid, and the lot numbers and NDCs of the selected medications appear in the corresponding grids.
  9. Select the required NDCs from the NDC grid.
    The selected NDCs move to the Selected NDCs grid.
  10. Select the lot numbers from the Lotnum grid.
    The lot numbers move to the Selected Lot# grid.
  11. Select either Generate Report or OK.
    The report is generated as per the selected criteria.

    The threshold column of the report displays the days entered on the Miscellaneous Configuration template for Expiring Medication Alert Threshold. If nothing is configured, the column displays an asterisk and the system defaults to 10 days.