Doctopass writes the prescription and checks it. You sign it.

What does Doctopass produce when I prescribe?

A document, and it is written where the rest of the consultation is. The Doctopass prescription editor sits inside the consultation workspace, beside the symptoms, the notes, the examination and the treatment plan, and what you write stays attached to the patient record rather than leaving on a loose sheet. The record and the workspace are on every plan; they are described on the platform page.

What comes out is a PDF, signed with SHA-256 and carrying a verification QR code, on all three plans including Essential. The QR confirms that the document somebody is holding is the one that was issued and that it has not been altered since. It is a check on the document, not a substitute for your signature — those are two separate things and this page keeps them separate.

Then you print it, or you hand it to the patient. That is the end of what Doctopass does with a prescription.

Does Doctopass check the prescription before I sign it?

Yes. Doctopass runs drug–drug and drug–allergy interaction checking on every prescription. A dangerous combination blocks rather than blinking at the edge of your vision, and if you decide to proceed anyway the override is recorded with the reason you gave. A separate allergy safety block covers the allergy case on its own. The reasoning behind blocking rather than warning is in interaction checks that block.

The checking starts on the Pro plan, at 159 DT per doctor, per month, billed annually, and continues on Premium. It is not on Essential, and that limit is worth reading twice rather than finding in a grid: on Essential the Doctopass prescription is written, signed and verifiable, and nothing cross-checks it — no molecule crossed against the record, no allergy stopping anything.

The checking runs against a structured drug base rather than against free text: RxNorm, completed by the Tunisian formulary. That is what makes checking possible at all. Software that lets you type a molecule name into a box cannot reason about what you wrote, whereas a base that ties every product to its molecule, its dosage and its family lets Doctopass see the molecule behind the brand name and cross it against the other lines of the prescription and against the record.

That mechanism is also why the checking is not one of the Doctopass AI features and does not need a connection. Crossing a prescription against a structured base is a lookup, not a call to a model, so the checking keeps running while the desktop application is offline. Checking starts on Pro and offline mode is on Premium, so every practice that can work offline has the checking with it — what does and does not survive an outage is on the offline mode page.

What does it mean that the checks are localised?

Doctopass scopes its interaction and allergy checking to the country the consultation takes place in. The checks reflect the medicines that are actually dispensed there and the prescribing conventions used there, rather than one global list applied identically everywhere.

That distinction is not administrative. The same molecule reaches the counter under different brand names in different countries, in different strengths and different combinations, and a check that does not know which market it is standing in fails in both directions: it misses the interaction between two products it does not recognise, and it raises an alarm about a product the patient could not be holding. An alert that is wrong often enough stops being read, which is the failure mode a safety check cannot afford.

For a consultation in Tunisia, that means the checking is scoped to Tunisia — which is what the Tunisian formulary sitting alongside RxNorm is there for.

Who signs the prescription?

The physician signs each prescription, digitally or by hand. Which of the two is the physician’s choice, not a setting Doctopass makes for you and not something the software decides by watching what you did last time.

This is the same rule that governs everything the Doctopass AI touches: the software drafts and checks, and a doctor reviews and signs before anything is finalised. There is no automatic finalisation and no silent write — the reasoning is in why the AI never signs.

What Doctopass will not tell you is what a prescription must carry under Tunisian law, what an electronic signature satisfies there, or what a pharmacy is obliged to accept. None of that is ours to state, and a software vendor stating it is a vendor you should not believe. The positions that bind you are those of the Conseil de l’Ordre and of the pharmacies you actually work with; one morning of phone calls to two or three of them near the practice will settle it better than any page like this one.

Does the pharmacy receive the prescription electronically?

No. Doctopass does not deliver prescriptions to pharmacies electronically. There is no electronic route from Doctopass to a pharmacy — not in Tunisia, not anywhere, not on any plan. The prescription reaches the counter the way it already does: as a document the patient carries in.

That is stated positively rather than left to be inferred, because it is the boundary most likely to be discovered late. A pharmacist meeting a Doctopass prescription meets a printed form of the kind they handle all day, and the whole gain sits upstream of the paper — in what was crossed against the record before the document was printed, and in the fact that the prescription is still in the patient’s file eight months from now when you write the next one.

This is also why the page is headed “Prescriptions”. The term e-prescribing normally carries two promises: that the prescription is composed, checked and signed in software, and that it then travels to the pharmacy over a network. Doctopass does the first and not the second, so it does not use a word that would sell you both.

What does Doctopass not do with prescriptions?

Three limits, in one place:

• No electronic delivery to a pharmacy. On any plan. The document is printed or handed over.
• No checking on Essential. Interaction checking, allergy checking and the allergy safety block start on Pro. Essential produces a signed, verifiable prescription that nothing cross-checks.
• No statement about what the law requires. Doctopass does not tell you what a prescription must carry, what a signature satisfies, or what a pharmacy must accept.

Where the plan line falls

The Doctopass prescription itself is on all three plans. Everything that checks it starts on Pro. The last row is on no plan at all, and is there so the boundary survives being read without the paragraphs around it.