A prescribing procedure is the controlled workflow a clinician follows to authorize a treatment, usually inside an electronic health record or e-prescribing system. It defines who can issue an order, what checks must be completed, and how the prescription is recorded, signed, and transmitted. In security terms, it is a privileged action that depends on identity, authorization, and integrity.
This matters because attackers target weak prescribing workflows to forge orders, abuse stolen clinician accounts, or alter treatment instructions. Defenses include strong authentication, role-based access control, electronic signatures, audit logging, and approval steps for high-risk medications. When the procedure is clear and enforced, it reduces fraud and makes tampering easier to detect. When it is fragmented or manual, it becomes a point where both operational mistakes and malicious activity can slip through.