Jeff may be too humble to announce that he's offering a presentation on this topic at the 2007 International MUSE Conference in San Diego. See the abstract below...
Alan Sherbinin MUSE Executive Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877-491-4703 Don't Be Allergic to the New MAGIC Allergy Model Presenter: Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Organization: Newman Regional Health, Emporia, Kansas Abstract: The new MEDITECH MAGIC Allergy Model 1B provides many benefits in ease of use to the end users and in safety to patients. The conversion process for a hospital using the earlier allergy model can appear to be intimidating. This presentation will provide an overview of the whole process and then describe each step of the process in detail as it was implemented at Newman Regional Health in Emporia, Kansas. Screen shots and lessons learned will be provided, along with a list of changes that were required within all modules for the implementation to be successful. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. is a Pharmacy Project Manager / Pharmacy Informatics / Staff Pharmacist at Newman Regional Health, Emporia, Kansas. He has been in that position since June 2005. He is currently Project Manager for the hospital-wide bedside medication verification system, laboratory collection system, blood transfusion system and vital sign collection system. Previously, he was a Director of Pharmacy for 13 years at a small rural hospital in Kansas. -----Original Message----- From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Jeff Sent: March 26, 2007 5:44 AM To: Castillo, Cristina; meditech-l@mtusers.com Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Allergy Alert Move to the new MAGIC 1B allergy model. There is no more class/generic/drug allergies. There is one dictionary in MIS that would have caught it. We moved to it last fall and it is so much easier to use. Another bonus is that Nursing and PHA and ER can share the same database. Call if you have questions. As an aside, we are 5.5.2 and I don't know if 5.4 can move to it but you might check. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -----Original Message----- From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Castillo, Cristina Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:32 PM To: meditech-l@mtusers.com Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Allergy Alert Hello Lr's, We have a scenario where one of the patient allergies is Morphine HCL. During order entry, the pharmacist enters an order of Morphine sulfate but she did not get flagged at all. The allergy was entered as a Generic. I checked the drug dictionary for MSO4, obviously the Ingredient is Morphine and on the Ingredient Allergy field, one of them is Morphine (F05). I called MEDITECH and asked them how come we did not get the alert. This was their response: Pellerin,Tracie (MEDITECH) - Mar 22, 2007 - 2004 EDT: The generic associated as an allergy is not the one associated to the drug MORP0050 that was ordered. If you would like to capture all allergies associated with Morphine, the allergy should be entered as a class allergy rather than a generic. Our Director of Pharmacy does not fully agree with MEDITECH. She believes that the user should still have gotten the flag as Morphine (regardless of how the allergy was entered, generic vs class) is clearly the main Ingredient and is also defined in the Ingred Allergy. If Pharmacy goes by Class Allergy, it's good in a way that it checks everything but at the same time they would get unnecessary alerts which can de-sensitize the user of these flags. Most of our pharmacists select the generic allergy. I have emailed MEDITECH again about how our pharmacy feels but hasn't gotten any response yet. Has this happened to you? How did you resolve the situation? How do you enter the allergy, generic or class? We are Magic 5.4 and we have First Data Bank. Cristina C. Kimball, BSN, RN Manager, Clinical Informatics Pacific Alliance Medical Center 531 W. 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