[MEDITECH-L] Time of cart exchange

We recently changed our cart exchange time to 1430 instead of 0700 each day and have seen a significant increase in missing doses. Most are instances such as a tid (0800,1400,2000) where the 1400 dose was not given by cart exchange and then they use one of the 3 from the new refill period for

Re: [MEDITECH-L] split meds

Tara - we have the Meditech interface and it works. However, it had to be fixed after a couple of previous updates and when it was fixed, it screwed up other things (like Pyxis returns being credited to the wrong med) Charlie Charles Downs PharmD Washington County Hospital 251 E. Antietam Street H

Re: [MEDITECH-L] 340B Pharmacy NPR report

Jim – We’re Magic and under #50 Reports is # 14. OUT Activity Report. You can sort By location, order type, etc. Let me know if this solves your problem. Charlie The IV’s show up like this: Thiamine 100 MG/Ml 2 Ml Vial 100 MG Folvite 5 MG/Ml 10 Ml Vial 1 MG Mvi-12,Multivitamin 10 Ml Vial

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy directions convention

I am not aware of this directions convention in Meditech, but it looks like it works. You enter the date followed by the @ and the time. Does anyone use this? If not, why not? An example would be 07/30/[EMAIL PROTECTED] The medication was billed for on the refill list. One of our pharmacists disco

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Revenue codes

Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:12 AM To: 'Charlie Downs'; meditech-l@mtusers.com Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Revenue codes Hey Charlie- If you look at the CMS website, you're looking for the drug "CAT", or category. In the APC listing there is a "status" and t

[MEDITECH-L] FW: Revenue codes

: Charlie Downs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:40 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Subject: Revenue codes Does anyone know of a free web site, preferably a CMS web site, where I could look up a drug to see what the correct re

[MEDITECH-L] Revenue codes

Does anyone know of a free web site, preferably a CMS web site, where I could look up a drug to see what the correct revenue code should be? Accounting is constantly asking me if a revenue code is correct, and I have no idea. Short of this, is there somewhere out there that explains what each reven

[MEDITECH-L] Function to view the CDM

I am frequently asked if a description, HCPCS code, multiplier, revenue code, etc are correct in the CDM. Accounting will not give me access to the CDM and I am told that there is no view function. Does anyone know a way that I can be set up to just view certain fields in the CDM? Thanks, Charlie

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Tablet splitting

Kevin - We create a separate drug dictionary entry for most of these half-tablets. The NDC number of the half-tablet is automatically proceeded by the letter A (a Meditech convention) when you copy a drug dictionary item. We just installed Automed a month ago and found that if we didn't have a sepa

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Is anyone using Dose Range Checking?

Gary - Are you using your own dose ranges or those provided by a formulary service? If they are FSV dose ranges, you might just want to forget it and build your own. We have FDB and there are problems with some of their dose ranges and also with the way Meditech uses them. You can turn off prn chec

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Physician Portal

We are attempting to bring Orion's portal live, but after 3 UAT's over the past year, it is still not live. Some pretty significant problems like incorrect allergies, no allergy information, not up to date, etc. We are the first Meditech site, so the problems are understandable. Bottom line: I woul

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Loading first databank

Tara - Check the Spanish monographs - evidently there is a file name but nothing in them and once we deleted this, we were OK. Let me know if this works. The other thing that it could be is if in your FSV toolbox parameters you have the FSV FILE PREFIX: MR5 set to MR4 and you have version MR5, it

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Buggy Meditech programming of DTS's

I couldn't agree more. I have had a programming course and know how complicated it is (it is the toughest course that I've ever had and believe me, if you've had organic chemistry, you know that programming must really be tough if it is tougher than organic chemistry). What I was trying to say

Re: [MEDITECH-L] MIX Request PHA - ISMP NOTICE LARGE DOSE AT TOP MIX

Lori - With the brand name, using the default of C in the access dictionary, here is what I get: 1 SINEQUAN 10 MG CAP Doxepin HCl 10 MG CAP DOXE10C 2 SINEQUAN 100 MG CAPDoxepin HCl 100 MG CAP DOXE100C 3 SINEQUAN 25 MG CAP Doxepin HCl 25 MG CAP DOXE25C 4

[MEDITECH-L] e-MAR, BMV, and wireless

Our hospital has made the commitment to going wireless. I have been given the task of identifying any special needs related to the e-MAR and BMV. From what I understand, Meditech does not currently have a wireless BMV; I've heard the first of the year, but does anyone know for sure? Also, I thought

Re: [MEDITECH-L] pharmacy help needed

Meditech is working on eventually having available any drug from the formulary service vendor available for order entry. I don't know when this will be available, but it will solve the problem. We do add most non-formulary drugs to the drug dictionary as they come up just to get the allergy and int

[MEDITECH-L] Buggy Meditech programming of DTS's

I don't know about everyone else, but I feel that was as Meditech users, really need to get Meditech to improve on their programming accuracy. I've run into more and more programming problems that have totally unintended consequences unrelated to the problems that they were supposed to fix. Below i

RE: [MEDITECH-L] FSV provided allergies~ 5.5 and 5.6

Alison - We've been using the FDB allergens for a while and everyone seems to like them much better than the old generic, class, ingredient. Jeff Thompson did a nice presentation at MUSE on the allergens module - check the MUSE web site. If you have any specific questions e-mail me or call. Charli

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA MAGIC 5.6.1 PENDING orders functionality

Cindy - We are also 5.61, but and not eMAR or POM, but I haven't seen the pending function. Is there some kind of customer defined parameter that turns it on or off? Where do you see it and what does it look like. Charlie Charles Downs PharmD Washington County Hospital 251 E. Antietam Street Hager

[MEDITECH-L] Pyxis testing for Meditech updates

th the Pyxis-Meditech interface each and every time that we've done an update, so beware, look this over carefully, and let me know if there are any other testing scenarios that I should go through; I'm sure I missed some, especially since the way Pyxis and Pharmacy inventory interface is ver

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy rule to print to printer

I need to write a rule that will look at a respiratory med in pharmacy and see if there is a corresponding order in OE, and if there isn't, print a message to a printer in respiratory. I know that at MUSE I saw where someone had done this, but can't remember where. If you can send me the part of th

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA Show & Tell /Jam Session - Muse International 5.6

Herb - We are going live with 5.6 on 6/10. There isn't really a whole lot new except with linked orders you now have 2 choices, concurrent and alternating. Concurrent means that you would give both medications at the same time whereas alternating is for something like Digoxin 0.125 mg every other d

RE: [MEDITECH-L] POM/CPOE Processes (Resending....sorry forthe prior PGP problems!!!)

I just returned from a meeting at Meditech yesterdat of the pharmacy advisory committee and the new 5.0 desktop addresses the issue of stat orders and brings them to the forefront. It looks like it will really make it a lot easier to follow unverified orders from POM. Charlie Charles Downs PharmD W

[MEDITECH-L] MUIS Clinical parameters per DTS 6820:

TECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:50 PM To: Charlie Downs Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] BMI in 5.5 & 5.61 Charlie Out of curiosity I was wondering if you would mind telling me what settings and formulas you used for each Of the MRI parameters that are now set up for us in the MI

RE: [MEDITECH-L] BMI in 5.5 & 5.61

Washington County Hospital Association <https://www.meditech.com/programs/ams.exe?TYPE=OnLine&WAC=WAC> Charlie Downs This connection to <http://www.meditech.com> MEDITECH.com is https/ssl secured. Service Issue PHA #5221677 Issue: PHA #5221677 (Apr 18, 2007) S

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Random M's Printing on PHA IV Labels

Deb - You might want to check your connections from the hub on out. We had label problems because one little pin didn't work and because of that, all of the information didn't flow to the printer correctly. Just a thought. Charlie Charles Downs PharmD Washington County Hospital 251 E. Antietam Stre

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Rule Help - Additive field

Drew - I don't believe you need a rule here. On page one of the drug dictionary you can select carrier, additive, or both. For these problematic IV's, just select carrier. If you still need a rule, I believe that you are correct in that you need to create a custom keyword. I have this one for th

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Nurses Coding Allergies - what about FOOD and OTHER

Jeff - I've noticed that FDB doesn't have all of the possible environmental allergies such as dogs, cats, bees, etc. Do you create these as the need arises? I'm thinking of how we handle this once nursing starts using this for documentation of allergies. I've created an allergen of "MISCELLANEOU

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Oncology Management

Sheral - From what I understand, it is still undergoing Beta testing at Cape Cod. Currently, there is a long waiting list for it. We are trying to get a delivery date on this product and they are saying that it will be at least a year out. Charlie Charles Downs Pharm.D. Washington County Hospita

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy dispensing machines - potential for HUGE crediting problem

Diane - We had a similar problem with Pyxis. Back with the release before 5.4 (5.3 or 4.9 - can't remember what it was called), there was a problem with split orders. Meditech fixed this, but when they did, they totally screwed up the crediting by eliminating the search for the mneumonic when c

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Fw: Allergens

y Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy 251 E. Antietam Street Hagerstown, MD, 21740 301-790-8904 - Original Message - From: "Thompson, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charlie Downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:37 AM Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Fw:

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHA.DIS link to PHA.RX

We haven't done this, but I believe that the best thing to do would be to build a table with ICD-9 codes cross-referenced to formulary vendor codes (FDB in our case) and script them in as a disease state. However, one would have to differentiate chronic and acute disease states and script out th

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Revenue II

We have been using cost since we went live with Meditech in 1992. It gives a much truer picture of what is happening than does AWP. Also, AWP will not be around much longer as formulary vendors such as FDB will not be allowed to publish this data. All the more reason to use cost. Charlie Charles

[MEDITECH-L] Fw: Allergens

Below is a message that I sent to Melinda Carson at FDB regarding the way the allergens pick list from FDB looks. I wanted to know if people agree with what I am asking them to do? Thanks, Charlie Melinda - Last night I was staffing and noticed that when I entered an allergy for Darvocet, I

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Allergy Alert

Christina - This is one reason that I went with the MIS allergens from FDB - everything is based on NDC#. If you use FDB and are 5.5 or greater, I would advise changing. We've run into this problem with Robitussin AC (with Codeine) and Codeine allergies. If you do not have the correct class unde

[MEDITECH-L] BMV and Employee badges

How does your organization handle the problem below with forgotten badges? What features does Meditech have to address this issue? We are not e-MAR/BMV yet, but I thought that this was an interesting question. Thanks, Charlie Charles Downs Pharm.D. Washington County Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy 2

[MEDITECH-L] Scanners, PDA's for e-MAR, etc

Evidently, with the new Meditech operating system, our old hand-helds (Data General) that we use for vitals, etc, will no longer work with the new operating system and will need to be replaced. With the e-MAR in the near future, I was wondering if anyone is aware of a device that will perform nu

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech and tall-man lettering

: "Alan Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pharmacy Informatics" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; "Charlie Downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech and tall-man lettering Charlie et al, We've been

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHARMACY VERIFICATION

PHARMACY VERIFICATIONSusan - Another case of " working as designed". Meditech fails to acknowledge that it is a poor design. This is one of the reasons that pharmacists enter all of our orders; it is faster than the verification process and frees up a tech. Plus, we have a fairly high turnover r

[MEDITECH-L] Transfering medications/Transfer label

When a patient is ordered Pneumococcal vaccine or Flu vaccine, the order reads to give on the day of discharge. When we receive the order, we bill for 1 and send to the floor. This is all and good except that when a patient is transfered, nursing doesn't know that the med is in the refrigerator

Re: [MEDITECH-L] POM PRN Reasons

We run into the same problem and yes, it would be a good idea. Also, as today, I had an order for Cefepime, pharmacy to dose. I had to know what the physician was treating in order to dose. Charlie Charles Downs Pharm.D. Washington County Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy 251 E. Antietam Street Hagers

[MEDITECH-L] Meditech and tall-man lettering

Below is a response that I received from Meditech on the subject of tall-man lettering. Looks like with 5.6 we'll be able to use it. "Pharmacy DTS 7667 in the 5.6 SR1 release introduces case insensitive lookups that allows for you to use tall man lettering. I see you are getting 5.6 in a few

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy labels

Below is an e-mail that I sent to Meditech. Does anyone have anything further to add? Also, is there a way to bold thermal labels on a Datamax I class printer? My analyst says that because of the way thermal works, you can't bold on any type of thermal printer. Is this true? Thanks, Charlie I

Re: [MEDITECH-L] 5.5 Pha Kicked to Goodbye at File Med

Mark - We had this problem and there is a DTS to fix it. Only one user was getting kicked to goodbye, but DTS 7601 seemed to fix it. Have your consultant look at my issue #4739176 if he has any questions. Also, let me know if this worked. Charlie Charles Downs Pharm.D. Washington County Hospital

[MEDITECH-L] PHA: Desiging Drug Database, Non-formulary drugs

Adnan - I've spoken to Meditech and they are supposedly working on allowing you to pick non-formulary drugs for order entry as long as there isn't a charge to them (you would pick from a list supplied by a third party vendor). However, until that happens (if it ever does), here's what I do. Fir

Re: [MEDITECH-L] MRI allergy alert to pharmacy

Eric - I'm not sure that I understand. A prompt to update allergies only comes up if someone has changed something in the administrative data screen in nursing. Also, why would you want a report, since you are prompted to update anytime you attempt to enter a medication after a change to the adm

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Laboratory- Pharmacy checks

Laboratory- Pharmacy checksTerri - Are you doing the e-MAR? This was an enhancement in something like 5.3 or 5.4 and my lab counterpart said that it wouldn't be of any use without having the e-MAR in place. Charlie Charles Downs Pharm.D. Washington County Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy 251 E. Antiet

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Switching Formulary Service from Medispan to FirstDatabank

Valerie - I've heard of people doing this successfuly at MUSE meetings. I don't know if there were any pitfalls or not. I don't know how Meditech purges all of the Medispan information and replaces it with FDB information, but there must be some way. The one thing I've heard is that Meditech wil

[MEDITECH-L] RFID for identifying patients with BMV, etc

I've seen of late articles on using RFID to identify patients when doing BMV instead of wrist-bands. It looks like there are several advantages to using RFID over wristbands. Does anyone know if Meditech and scanners that work with Meditech are able to use this technology for identifying pa

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Nurses enter coded allergies?

From: "Crepeau, Denise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Charlie Downs'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cecilia Altizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:00 AM Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Nurses enter coded allergies? Charlie

Fw: [MEDITECH-L] Short Stay Unit

Carol Weible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Charlie Downs'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:01 AM Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Short Stay Unit Charlie, I'm not registered with Meditech L; therefore you may forward this response: We curr

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Nurses enter coded allergies?

Cecilia - I understand from Meditech that with 5.6 nursing will have the options of entering allergies using the MIS allergens dictionary. I believe that this is better for everyone involved; why have 2 separate databases especially when the one is free-text? Everyone needs to be working with th

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pyxis/BMV/Patient Own Med Controls

I guess I'll jump into the fray. What we do is keep the entire container in our narcotic vault and dispense on a unit dose basis (24 hours supply), unless prn, in which case we would supply a 48 hour supply. This we only do for non-formulary narcotics. In each Pyxis machine, we have a pocket cal

Re: [MEDITECH-L] IV Refill Lists Drug Sort

We have budgeted for the purchase of a product called Stellara. Stellara is a clinical product that has its own rules engines and runs these rules against patients to create warnings and lists. Has anyone used this product and successfully interfaced it with Meditech? Thanks Charlie Charles Down

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy users need to change Facility

Frankie - Why can't they either have 2 sessions running concurrently or 2 separate computers. Charlie Charles Downs Pharm.D. Washington County Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy 251 E. Antietam Street Hagerstown, MD, 21740 301-790-8904 - Original Message - From: "Frankie Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Magic5.4-state of Maryland magnetic media

Please previous message below. Does anyone know why some of my messages from the L are looking like this? I recall seeing this previously (I believe, but am not 100% sure) if I had too many messages in Outlook Express, but I closed it out, eliminating most of my deleted messages and am still re

[MEDITECH-L] Dates of service on claims

We are having a problem with our outpatient chemo center entering orders on the last day of the month which are due for the 1st day of the next month. For instance, an order is entered on November 30th with a start date of December 1st. When the November claims are printed, the 12/1 charge

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHA SCH=ONE when OE SIG=1X

The order type is at the top of the hierachy. You can test all of this out by adding different schedules in the order type, MIS directions, and defaults in the drug dictionary if you want to see what happens. Charlie Charles Downs Pharm.D. Washington County Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy 251 E. Ant

[MEDITECH-L] J-codes and revenue codes

I have been dealing with J-code and revenue code problems for the past several months. For instance, today, we had Cytoxan claims rejected by Medicare because we had old J-codes of J9095 for the 500 mg vial and J9096 for the 1 gm vial with a multiplier of 1 for each. Now, I find out that ef

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHA PRN Reason and Reason Category Dictionaries

Carla - Here is what I've come up with so far. I still have ways to go with fully developing this, but I believe that the main thing is to set up you reason category dictionary, attach the reasons to this, and then if you go to page 4 (at least in magic), you can enter a reason category or categ

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHA Generic Name Scripting Question

Robin - I have to manually correct the AHFS codes periodically because of this. With the MIS allergens feature, you no longer have to rely upon AHFS codes for allergies. However, even though FirstDataBank and I'm sure the other FSV's have a program that will also check for duplicates, Meditech s

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Hold orders

Hold ordersHold = Discontinue unless for a specified period of time such as hold AM dose, hold for 2 days, etc in which case the deactivate function is used. The physician can write an order to resume or just re-write the order if they want to re-start. Charlie Charles Downs Pharm.D. Washington

[MEDITECH-L] Datamax Thermal Printers locking

We finally found out what was causing our Datamax I Class DMX-I 4208 thermal printers to lock up after so many labels as described below. For some reason, when we switched to the previous version of firmware, the problem went away. It still doesn't explain why it worked for over 2 months with

[MEDITECH-L] MAR label with admin dates and times

I'm hoping that someone can provide the information necessary to change how our administration times appear on the MAR label. Currently, no date prints, and the times are not verticall alligned. We have had problems with new orders for a drug to be given every 36 hours being given 12 hours after

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy compound label

Does anyone have a thermal label format for compounds that will have a liquid med print out in ml instead of mg. For instance, the following label was generated: Diphenhydramine 75 mg Mag/Al Hydrox/Simeth 30 ml Lidocaine 2% 30 ml Total:90

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHA 5.5 FDB load version 1 vs. version 2

Donna - I attempted this convesion in test back in March and there were several problems, especially with the mapping from generic, class, and ingredient to the proper allergen. For instance, I had Cipro in Dextrose as a generic allergy on a test patient. After mapping, they had 50 different co

[MEDITECH-L] J-codes and multipliers with 1500 claim forms

We began using the J-codes and multipliers in BAR on 8/1/06. I'm a pharmacist, so I don't know a whole lot about BAR. I had billing print out all of the claims for our outpatient oncology center from August and noticed that the J-code was showing up on UB92 forms for medicare patients correctly

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy workload statistics

Does anyone know if medications removed from a Pyxis profile machine under an active order show up a workload statistics anywhere when using DOSES? I know that I tested this a couple of years ago and they weren't showing up under refills, but I was wondering if Meditech changed anything. Thanks

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHA report for renewal notices

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Title: PHA report for renewal notices Why would you want to write an NPR report when Meditech already has one? In Magic (5.5 SR2

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Datamax Thermal Printers locking

From: "Charlie Downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 9:05 AM Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Datamax Thermal Printers locking All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l we

[MEDITECH-L] Datamax Thermal Printers locking

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I certainly hope that someone can help solve the problem that we are having with our Datamax I Class: DMX-I 4208 thermal print

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Dose Range Checking in MG 5.5

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Beth - The 5.5 dose range checking was put in place from what I can see to use FDB's and other vendor's dose range checking. I d

[MEDITECH-L] Pentamidine via inhalation charges

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Our respiratory care director said that charges are being denied for the Pentam (Pentamidine) component of the Pentam treatments i

Re: [MEDITECH-L] MAGIC MIS Allergies Version 1B

Downs Pharm.D.Washington County HospitalInpatient Pharmacy251 E. Antietam StreetHagerstown, MD, 21740301-790-8904 - Original Message - From: Robin D. Cullen To: Charlie Downs Cc: meditech-l@mtusers.com Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:33 PM Subject: Re

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Lab Labels - Datamax M4208 - Labels getting stuck inthe queue

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Deborah - I've had similar problems with running IV refill lists. The problem is still unresolved, but when we run IV refill lis

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHARMACY ORDERS ON RCR SDS ACCOUNTS

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We have similar problems with our IV infusion center and our oncology center. Admitting has our recurring accounts set up for

[MEDITECH-L] Allergies on ID wrist bands

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I'm posting this question on behalf of our informatics nurse; any responses would be appreciated and I'll forward them to her.

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Outpatient Split Orders Not Charging

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I wanted to alert all of you of a definite "bug" in Meditech. We are 5.5, SR2. On August 1st, we were able to use the J-code funct

[MEDITECH-L] PHARMACY BILLING FOR RECURRING OUTPATIENT ACCOUNTS

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ==   I just wanted to alert the group, especially the pharmacy people, of a problem that I just uncovered while auditing some

Re: [MEDITECH-L] please post: AHFS Class changes and Meditech5.4(Magic)

tam Street Hagerstown, MD, 21740 301-790-8904 - Original Message - From: "Terry Lehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charlie Downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Richard Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 9:10 AM Subject: RE: [ME

Re: [MEDITECH-L] please post: AHFS Class changes and Meditech 5.4(Magic)

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Richard - I've spoken to Meditech about this before and they were supposed to add extra spaces to this field, but it didn't happen

Re: [MEDITECH-L] capturing Adverse Drug Reactions to PCI

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Debbie and others on the L - Have you done this for clinical interventions also? Our clinical interventions, once they pass a cert

Re: [MEDITECH-L] EMAR/THERMAL problems

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == RX ID should also display in PCI, in fact everywhere. It should be parameter driven so that you could choose exactly what you want

Re: [MEDITECH-L] # of Days for Mental Health MAR

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Karen - We use a 3 day MAR housewide (including our mental health unit) with the exception of a 1 day MAR in critical care. Charl

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Magic 5.4 J-Codes and PHA

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Carla - I just finished setting up the J-code functionality in pharmacy and BAR and it seems to be working fine. If you have a sin

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Workload

that's Meditech for you. I;ve talked to them about this issue, but as usual, no can do. This can make quite a difference if your workload statistics are based on doses dispensed, which ours were until recently. Charlie Downs Pharm.D. Washington County Hospital - Original Message -

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy - Pyxis and fix DC function

when someone is discharged in error and the order is fixed by undo. Charlie - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Charlie Downs'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:42 PM Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy - Pyxis and

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy - Pyxis and fix DC function

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I ran into an interesting scenario yesterday. Had an order that showed up as active on the Pyxis console, yet didn't show up on

[MEDITECH-L] Alternatives to X-Point

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I am posting this on behalf of my nursing counterpart, but this also affects pharmacy. Currently, our hospital uses X-Point to s

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy-billing question

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We have this problem also, and I believe that it is not with the midnight to midnight vs noon-noon part. We do screen fills for our

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy: Dummy drug dictionary entries

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I need to build a Carboplatin 0.04 ml test dose entry in the drug dictionary. I've done this many times before, but each time th

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHA Charging for one ml unit instead of 100ml unit

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Title: PHA Charging for one ml unit instead of 100ml unit Jim - We are magic, so I'm not sure how it is set up in client server,

[MEDITECH-L] Re: Obsolete NDC #'s

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Cristina - I believe that if you run # 24. FSV Non-Matching List then this will give you a good idea of what obsolete NDC's tha

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy mnemonics

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Bev - Yes and No. You can only assign one mneumonic per drug in the drug dictionary, but then you can assign additional mneumonics i

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Bold fields on Thermal Label (PHA)

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Claudia - I was told by my analyst that you can't bold thermal labels, so instead of bolding, we just made the print larger; un

[MEDITECH-L] REVENUE CODES FOR DRUGS

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == I've found that we've been sending revenue code 250 to BAR on some drugs when it should be 636. Our accounting people say that t

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Looking For A PHA Rule

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Kris - This rule works as long as the account number is the same. First you need to create a keyword, then use it in the rule. Let m

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Dosage Range checking in PHA

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Tom - I have the dose range checks in test but am not using them in live mainly because I've not had the time to look at them in det

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Ordering Process

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We are Magic 5.5 SR2 and had a similar problem with only one user. This one user (the rest were OK and we don't use tech order entry

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Medispan POM interaction checking- manipulatingdictionaries

All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We use FirstDataBank, but I too think that as a user I should be able to suppress certain interactions. I believe that the problem l

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