Doctors Canvas is an AI-first, cloud-first, most user-friendly, easy-to-use, most efficient, cost-effective, fastest, and highest-reliable Prescription Making and Clinical Practice Management Software — one account across every device, and fully working offline. Below is the whole flow, from the patient walking in to the printed sheet in their hand.
Key takeaways
- A digital prescription is created in five moves: find the patient, record the diagnosis, let Shifa AI draft the regimen, review the safety flags, print.
- Shorthand carries over from paper —
1+0+1and5dauto-fill the dose and duration fields. - The BMDC registration number, degrees, letterhead and signature are applied by the software, not by you.
- Interaction and allergy checks run before the prescription saves, not afterwards.
- The whole sequence works offline; the sync happens when the line comes back.
The five moves
Find or create the patient
Search by mobile number or DGHS Health ID. An existing patient opens with their full visit timeline, vitals trends and previous prescriptions already attached, so you are not reconstructing the history from what the patient remembers. A new patient takes a few fields to create, and the front desk can do that at check-in before you ever see them.
Record the diagnosis
Enter the diagnosis in your own words. This is the step everything else keys off, which is why it comes before drug entry rather than after — the diagnosis is what Shifa AI drafts from.
Let Shifa AI draft the regimen
Shifa AI produces the complete prescription from the diagnosis — drugs, doses, durations — as an editable draft rather than a locked template. You adjust what you want to adjust. This is the step that turns a multi-minute task into a sub-minute one, because you are correcting a draft instead of composing from blank.
Review the safety flags
Before the prescription saves, recorded allergies and drug interactions are flagged against the 50,000+ DGDA-registered medicine catalogue. Clear or override them deliberately. The check is on the draft, so it catches problems while they are still cheap to fix.
Print or share
The print carries your letterhead, digital signature, and correctly formatted BMDC registration number and degrees. Patient-facing instructions can be written in Bangla where that is clearer for the patient. WhatsApp delivery straight to the patient is in development and not yet available.
Why the shorthand matters more than it sounds
Most software asks you to translate the way you already write into the way the form wants it: a dropdown for frequency, another for duration, a third for timing relative to meals. Done a hundred times a night, that translation is the real cost of digitising.
Canvas Mode removes it by accepting the notation you already use on paper. Typing 1+0+1 fills the morning, midday and night fields. Typing 5d fills the duration. You are not learning a new grammar; you are typing the old one into a faster surface.
That is also why the learning curve is short enough to attempt during live sessions. There is very little to unlearn.
Write the first week's prescriptions with the paper pad beside you
Not because the software will fail, but because the confidence to stop reaching for the pad is worth more than the week it costs. Most doctors stop reaching for it within a few sessions.
What the patient record accumulates
Each prescription you write adds to a record that is genuinely useful on the next visit: the full visit timeline, vitals trends across visits, and the complete history of what was prescribed and when. That history is what makes the second and third consultations faster than the first.
It is also what makes the record defensible. A structured, timestamped history of what was prescribed, against what diagnosis, with what safety checks applied, is a stronger position than a folder of carbon copies.
Patients can book and manage their own appointments through the patient portal today. Full prescription and medical-history access inside that portal is on the roadmap and not yet available.
Paper versus digital, step by step
The comparison that matters is not feature against feature but move against move, because the time is spent in the moves.
| Step | On paper | In Canvas Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the patient | Depends on the patient bringing the previous sheet | Mobile number or DGHS Health ID opens the full timeline |
| Writing the regimen | Composed from blank, every time | Shifa AI drafts from the diagnosis; you edit the draft |
| Dosing notation | 1+0+1, written by hand | 1+0+1, typed — fields auto-fill from it |
| Interaction check | From memory, at the end of a long session | Automatic against 50,000+ DGDA medicines, before save |
| Allergy check | From whatever the patient remembers to mention | Against the allergies recorded on the patient record |
| Compliance formatting | Pre-printed pad, re-ordered when it runs out | BMDC number, degrees, letterhead and signature applied automatically |
| The next visit | Starts from zero if the sheet is lost | Starts from the stored timeline and vitals trends |
Before your first live session, check these five
Ten minutes of setup removes most of the friction people report in their first week.
- Upload your letterhead and digital signature so the first print is already correct.
- Confirm your BMDC registration number and degrees are entered — they are formatted onto every prescription from that field, not retyped each time.
- Create your chamber, or all of them if you consult at several; each keeps its own schedule under the one login.
- Create the receptionist or attendant account, so check-in and vitals are captured before the patient reaches you.
- Open the PQD URL on the waiting-room television once, so the queue is visible from the first patient rather than the second week.
Handling the awkward cases
Real sessions are not uniform, and the cases that slow people down are usually the same few. The patient who has been seen before but under a different phone number — search by DGHS Health ID, which is stored on the record precisely so identity survives a changed SIM. The patient who arrives with a prescription from another doctor — record the current medicines on the patient record so the interaction check has something to check against.
Then there is the repeat visit where nothing has changed and the previous regimen simply continues. The stored prescription history is the shortcut here: the previous prescription is on the timeline, so continuing it is an edit rather than a re-composition. This is the case that most rewards having used the software for a few months, because the history it needs is history you have already accumulated.
The case worth slowing down for is the interaction or allergy flag. It fires on the draft, before anything saves, and the right response is to read it rather than dismiss it — that is the whole reason the check sits before the save rather than in a report afterwards.
What the front desk should be doing while you prescribe
The thirty-second prescription is only achievable if the patient arrives at your screen already identified and already measured. That is the front desk's half of the workflow, and it runs in parallel rather than in sequence: while you are consulting with one patient, the receptionist is registering the next and capturing their vitals.
Role-based access is what makes that safe to delegate. The receptionist account is scoped to serial, schedule and patient management; your clinical notes are not in that scope. So the front desk can prepare the record fully without ever seeing the consultation.
Meanwhile the queue advances on its own. Closing a consultation moves the token board on the waiting-room television, which means nobody has to be told it is their turn and nobody has to stand at your door to find out. The three things happen at once, and that concurrency is where the session time actually comes back.
Frequently asked questions
How long does one prescription actually take?
About thirty seconds for a complete prescription once you are used to the shorthand — diagnosis in, draft reviewed, flags cleared, printed. The first few will take longer.
Can I edit what Shifa AI drafts?
Yes, always. The draft is editable, not a locked template. Shifa AI proposes; you decide. Nothing saves until you accept it.
What if the patient has no mobile number or Health ID?
You can create the patient record with the details you have. The DGHS Health ID field is captured and stored when available, and can be added on a later visit.
Does the prescription print in Bangla?
Bangla input is optimised for patient-facing instructions, so the parts the patient needs to read can be in Bangla while the clinical fields stay in the conventional format.
What happens if the power goes out mid-prescription?
The record is written on-device first, so it is not lost. When power and connectivity return, it syncs automatically. You can keep prescribing and printing in the meantime.
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