adult patient controlled analgesia u201d specifying the drug or drugs that can be used for this particular therapy and specifying how the pump 110 should be programmed for this particular combination of therapy and drug an advantage of this approach is that the drug is being used in context of the therapy specific standing order and therefore specific pump programming can be associated with the drug once a library of electronic standing orders is created the orders can be stored in the standing order database 114 and stored on an individual computer 104 stored on the server 102 additionally the library of electronic standing orders can be synchronized to a device such as a mobile computer 108 or downloaded into a medical pump 110 in other embodiments the library of electronic standing orders can be stored on the pump 110 in yet other possible embodiments only a smaller set of the electronic standing orders from the library of electronic standing orders is stored on the mobile computing platform 108 or the pump 110 the patient database 116 includes a list of drugs and therapies prescribed to a particular patient the patient database 116 includes a patient i d such as the patient name or identification number patient care.