[MEDITECH-L] Expanding Element Name Space in MIS GR Dictionary

I apologize if this gets sent twice...I sent this back a couple of weeks ago when there were problems with the L, and I have not seen this post yet. Attention all L-ers: I submitted a MIX request last year to expand the Element Name field of the MIS Group Response dictionary to at least 50 charac

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR

Kim: We have ours scheduled twice an hour. Set the Frequency to "Daily". Set the days to "SUN:SAT" and the time as desired, say 13:00. Then to get the next run, in the days, repeat SUN:SAT and the next time would be 13:30. Repeat this until you covered your 24 hour period. The schedule gets l

RE: [MEDITECH-L] RE: Pathology Lab Slide Labels

We use a Datamax E class with the ribbon and special slide labels. Roberta Cranswick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Clinical Systems Project Manager Willamette Falls Hospital 1500 Division Street Oregon City, Oregon 97045 503-656-1631 ext. 3483 "Carol Lutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: meditech-l@mtuser

FW: [MEDITECH-L] Hand Held Phlebotomy

Subject: Lattice We have been using the Lattice system for blood collection for close to 2 years. I have had prompt service from both Iatric's and Lattice with "problems" or custom items. I would recommend a extended warranty with Symbol for the handheld itself. Laurie McKelvey

[MEDITECH-L] Pain reassess reminder

Does anyone have a good way to prompt nurses to reassess pain after 30 minutes? We do use both the status board and BMV. Thank you Jeanne Hesseling Delnor Hospital Geneva,Il 630-208-4439 <> BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Hesseling;Jeanne FN:Jeanne Hesseling ORG:;IS TEL;WORK;VOICE:x4439 EM

RE: [MEDITECH-L] pharmacy rule

Howard, What sort of message appears for RT? Printed or screen? If printed, where did you make that link? Thanks for the info! Brent Massey First Consulting Group Home Office: 413.283.3613 Mobile: 413.668.8651 -Original Message- From: Howard Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Frid

RE: [SPAM][MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR

Hi Kim- I strongly urge you to play the backend of your scenario as well - print out a copy of the FTP to ensure it's a "usable" document by nursing. My experiences have been that the resulting output is not formatted to a usable document. With that being said, I have used a combination of pdf fi

RE: [SPAM][MEDITECH-L] Magic 5.5 sr2 Sending automatic notification to PCPwhen pt registered to the Emergency Room

MIS Notifications... Kevin McConnell, PharmD. Clinical Consultant (713)480-6810 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.RPhInformatics.com -Original Message- From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moran, Michael Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:30 AM To: meditech-l@mtusers

[MEDITECH-L] Meditech (Magic) Medical Necessity - Insurance changes

How are other facilities handling this scenario: A Pre-Registration is done and the patients insurance is pulled from Demo Recall, and since we have CWS, we also do order entry. Well, when the patient presents, we find out the insurance should have been updated to Medicare, so the Pre-Registratio

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute to Patient Notes

Yes we have this issue as well. Please post any responses to the L~ We have just asked Meditech for a fix on this, as it has been problematic. No response yet. Nancy Cunningham CIS Humber River Regional Hospital 416 658-2183 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PR

[MEDITECH-L] Senior Applications Analyst position in Maryland!

Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) is recruiting for the position of Applications Analyst, within the Information Technology (IT) Department. HCGH (www.hcgh.org) is a 200 bed community hospital, located in Columbia, MD - a suburban community located almost exactly midpoint between Washington,

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR

We use Interbit's Mprint/Netprint product to capture the MAR every hour. Pretty slick. Tom Bluhm I.S. Director Island Hospital (360) 299-1335 _ From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim Corrette Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:41 AM To: meditech-l@MTU

[MEDITECH-L] BMV IV BAGS

Hi All, We have clear IV bags with barcodes. They will not scan. Do we have to re-label them? Dye them neon green ?(just kidding). Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks Tara McNamara MT (ASCP) Meditech Analyst Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands Ph: 508-833-4025 Fx: 508-833-405

[MEDITECH-L] (no subject)

Hi All, For all you pyxis users out there, we are having a problem with every other day meds. For example, we have dig 0.25 every other day and dig 0.125 every other day. The nurses see both digoxins on their paper mar and pyxis profile. The computer (we use BMV) will tell them which is due, bu

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Magic 5.5 sr2 Sending automatic notification to PCPwhen pt registered to the Emergency Room

Mike: Just an FYI, we used to do this, but stopped due to HIPPA, the patient may not want their PCP to know they are in the ER (drug overdose, physical abuse,etc...) But if you do want to do this, there are numerous ways to do it. Do you use EDM? PWM or POM whatever the current initials are (do

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR

Please post. We're in the process right now of developing our downtime plans for e-MAR as we plan to go LIVE with it in the ED next month. We plan to use Automate to script the e-MAR and some other reports to run and download every 30 minutes to an hour. I'd like to know what others are doing. P

[MEDITECH-L] Duplicate Account Numbers

With all of the discussion lately on moving documentation from one account to another, this will fit right in. We're working on a policy and procedure for correcting duplicate account numbers and moving orders, documentation, charges, etc. from one account to another. We'd like to have a place to

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

The original post used the term "vial", and the replies added the term "multidose", but I'm thinking that the original question was about a prescription vial (bottle) with a bunch of tablets/capsules, and not about a multidose vial of some injectable narcotic. This situation almost never comes

RE: [MEDITECH-L] time link from EMAR to Status Board?

Sharon, In C/S, you can attach a query to the status board. We have this exact scenario you describe set up so that the response to the query "Pain Reassessment Needed" (which is the last query on the assessment attached to the pain med on eMAR) displays on the Status Board. If a "Y" displays

[MEDITECH-L] PCS Report Help

I writing a report to calculate Foley Device Days. The dates are documented on two separate PCS intervention CDSs. Does anyone have a PCS NPR report you would be willing to share? Thanks, Debra __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Ma

RE: [MEDITECH-L] time link from EMAR to Status Board?

Sharon, The assessment is actually attached to the drug. At our hospital, we added several more queries, including the location of the pain, and one that asked if the pain should be re-assessed. This has a yes/no query with a comment. If the nurse answers Yes, they enter the time to re-assess

[MEDITECH-L] NUR Magic 5.5 LTC/SNF

Hi, We went live with NUR in October and have a question about our SNF unit charts. On paper for the long term residents that have an acute care admission, when they return they are treated as a new admit. The old chart is sent to medical records and a new chart is started. The resident is not re-

[MEDITECH-L] Automated Phone System for Patient Appointment Times

Can anyone recommend a vendor who provides an Automated Phone Messaging system for patients to either be called to "call in" to receive their "time to report" for surgery? =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.COM. To check the st

RE: [MEDITECH-L] time link from EMAR to Status Board?

This might be an enhancement in 5.6. Meditech is promising rules based logic on the MAR. not sure if this will be possible. Tara McNamara MT (ASCP) Meditech Analyst Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands Ph: 508-833-4025 Fx: 508-833-4056 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Note: This email

[MEDITECH-L] SCHEDULING MODULE (SCH or CWS) MAGIC 5.4

Is there anyone out there who would care to share what they use the verb strip option 'ALERTS'? The description and information I requested from Meditech is basically nothing so was hoping someone could share. Regards, Carolyn Drexel - Senior Clinical Informatics Analyst -Interior H

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Notifing Physicians of needed dictations

Thanks for the information. -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deanna Ramirez Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:26 PM To: Mahnke, Peggy (Information Systems); meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Notifing Physicians of need

[MEDITECH-L] Dietary Applications

Hi Everyone, I am collecting feedback on dietary applications being used in conjunction with Meditech. Our Dietary department is currently all manual and wants to move toward an electronic solution. I would like feedback on what other Meditech facilities are using and how well this is going for

[MEDITECH-L] Try Again: A4/Meditech Consultants?

Our Family Clinic has purchased a Healthmatics suite of products from A4 (now owned by Allscripts) to replace the Medical Manager system they've used in the past. The A4 products will be used for scheduling, billing, and for the clinic's EHR. Have any of you out in "L" land helped implement A4 i

[MEDITECH-L] Anyone using a SAN for backups and archiving?

Anyone using a Storage Area Network for backups and archiving? Good? Bad? Like? Dislike? Rick Varner Business Systems Analyst Bartlett Regional Hospital 907-796-8922 <> =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.COM. To c

RE: [MEDITECH-L] NPR ADM Report

Julia, if I'm reading your question right, you should be able to get that information out of dpm ADM.PAT, segment adm.pat.events. The admit.clerk field shows who did it, and the event.code field shows which routine was used during the particular edit. There can (of course) be multiple events for an

RE: [MEDITECH-L] time link from EMAR to Status Board?

Sharon: When we did EMAR/BMV years ago, we would default query data from the EMAR admin screen to NUR and vice -versa, When the nurse did a bedside glucose and it was high, when she went to document insulin admn, that last blood sugar value she had just recorded in NUR defaulted onto the EMAR

[MEDITECH-L] Health Systems Account Manager Opportunity-Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center (Brighton, MA) (edited)

Please note edited contact info in contrast to earlier e-mail. Below is the e-mail address that you may contact the hiring VP. I have posted this on his behalf. Thanks. Health Systems Account Manager

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Barcode formats

Terry, If your scanners don't support the barcodes that the drug manufacturers use, you have 2 choices - you either get different scanners or you repackage the offending items. In the pharmacy, I use a Metrologic MS1690 that will read all but a very small number of our barcodes. Alan Miller, RPh

[MEDITECH-L] RE: Magic 5.5: Blood Unit Tags for Identification

Please reply to list, we are interested in this also. Sandra Fox Haywood Regional Medical Center 262 LeRoy George Drive Clyde, NC 28721 Phone: 828-452-8136 Fax: 828-452-8779 _ From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carla Fuller Sent: Wednesday, January

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pain reassess reminder

Please post Thanks Carolyn Muhlbauer Sr.Manager Clinical Applications. MIS 595 W. State Street Doylestown, PA 18901 215-345-2408 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeanne Hesseling Sent: Wednesday, January

[MEDITECH-L] OE viewer interface for PACS

We are currently working on implementing Siemens RIS/PACS and have purchased the Meditech OE Viewer Interface. Does anyone else have Meditech interfaced to Siemens RIS/PACS? Have you been successful in launching an image associated with a report from PCI? Thanks! Jodi Chere IS Senior Analyst

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute to Patient Notes

We are on version 5.5 SR3 MAGIC. I just tested this and did not encounter this issue. What version of Meditech are you on? Cheryl Toomey MHA, RN BC Clinical Informatics Specialist Milford Regional Medical Center Milford, MA 01757 vm (508) 422-2449 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-