Approve orders

Path: Orders>General>Order Run

For non Physician Portal users, an order cannot be approved unless its status is printed ("P"). By approving an order, its status changes to approved ("A").

When the order has been signed with some changes made on Physician Portal, you can preview and print it in the Order Run to which this order was linked.

1. Go to Orders>General>Order Run.
2. Double-click the Order Run containing the orders you want to approve. 
3. Select the orders you want to approve. Printing of orders for paper signature is a necessary step prior to their approval. 
   The Physician Portal orders, which are grouped under the Electronic Signature section, can be approved without printing.
4. Click Approve. 
   The Approval window reappears with the Save button available. The window displays all orders ready for approval, so you can select more orders if needed.
5. Click Save.

The orders appear highlighted in green with the approved status ("A"). The Physician Portal orders are available for review and signature on the portal. After an order is approved and contained in a closed run, you can reprint it but the system only reproduces the last stored image at the time of approval.

If the status changes to "H", it means that the order is on hold because the physician is not PECOS enrolled. When the physician becomes enrolled, then the status of portal orders changes to "P", so you need to approve these orders again.