[MEDITECH-L] PCM Remote Access

Wondering what other hospitals are doing for their physicians to provide remote access for PCM? Are your physicians satisfied with your remote access performance for PCM and/or are you also having any issues with your remote access product? We are experiencing slow performance using PCM along wi

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Dell Servers running Magic

We are running Magic on Dell 2650's to an EMC SAN for the past 5 years. We were very early in the OSAL days so there were not many options. We went with an authorized Meditech partner to have it done. JJ Wild, if I recall correctly, was not yet doing this at the time. Today I believe you are requ

[MEDITECH-L] HIPAA: Technical safeguards & Access Control

Apologies that this is slightly off topic, but we're desperate for outside input! Our institution has moved to personal intranet logons from which Meditech as well as several other repositories of patient data, e.g. our hospital census sheet, are available. The network account either locks or

[MEDITECH-L] Lab users and computer log off settings

How are sites handling HIPAA requirements for termination of "electronic sessions" in the Laboratory. Our IS department is referencing rule 164.312 in the Federal Register (45 CFR Parts 160, 162, and 164) for guidance, and are leaning towards an interpretation that means Lab users need to be autom

Re: [MEDITECH-L] RE: interfacing from meditech to kronos

I don't think I have ever heard of Kronos Connect. We do daily scheduled downloads of our accruals, GL departments, labor levels, and employee data via scheduled NPR reports. These reports are delimited files and sent via FTP directly to our Kronos server. We are running Magic 5.4. T

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHARMACY VERIFICATION

Susan, I'm going to respectfully disagree. Speaking from Kansas regulations, the technician could not make the "judgmental decision" of which order is appropriate for the patient. Granted identical orders are easy but many times they are not the same orders. It is the pharmacists that should ma

[MEDITECH-L] In need of a rule to create new spec#

I am looking for some assistance in creating a rule to create a new spec#/barcode# for a test in our chem department. It has been forever since I have had to place a new rule in the system and I am not familiar with the different screens since our last update. If someone could share some insight

RE: [MEDITECH-L] interfacing from meditech to kronos

Pam, We are Magic 5.4 SR3 and we have Kronos Workforce 4.3 (upgrading to 5.2 next month or so). Our vendor, M.M.Hayes, provided an interface application for the two to pass data back and forth. Each night, a custom NPR report is scheduled to run and includes all employees with their basic

RE: [MEDITECH-L] CDS pop up attribute help needed

Christy, It is much easier to help you when you show what you have that is almost working. Then small adjustments can be recommended rather than working out the whole problem from scratch. Daniel Davis From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Filing CDS

IFE=IF{[ANS,"TNU06100B"]|0="Y" 1, IFE=IF{/Z'=141'=13'=4 "";@Z.file^/Z,""};""} Daniel Davis -Original Message- From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren Griffith Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:55 AM To: meditech-l@mtusers.com Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Filing

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Help with a total attribute/macro

Linda, Probably an attached file listing your CDS would be helpful. Daniel Davis From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Parrish, Linda Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:27 PM To: meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Help wit

[MEDITECH-L] FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program??

Are there any facilities out there looking into the Rural Health Care Pilot Program? I would appreciate any feedback or thoughts on this program. Brandon Gauntt Director - Information Services Hopkins County Memorial Hospital 903-439-4054 Office This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Negative orders - eMAR

Sorry to have to ask, but what's a "negative medication order"? Alan Miller,RPh >>> "Freeman, Gale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/08/2007 10:06 AM >>> I just found out from our Pharmacy director , we do not process those types of orders so we do not have this issue with eMAR. -Original Mes

[MEDITECH-L] RAD Film Locator Report Help

Has anyone been successful in capturing either the modality or the rad number on a custom film locator report? Thanks =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.COM. To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. For

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Bold font within an MV array...

I just finished working on this type of thing last week. Struggled to no end, but finally was able to do this with the help of Joe Cocuzzo and Meditech's KB Article 9379. You must define your computed field DAT=INT and JFY=R for the printing formats to take effect. Also you will need to play wi

[MEDITECH-L] NUR CDS Attribute

Hi, I am fairly new to attributes and would like help with finding one that would allow the response to a query (CD.A.BRAD) answered on the Admission Assessment CDS to default into a different query (CD.D.BRAD) on the nurses shift assessment CDS. Would the query be placed only on CD.D.BRAD? Thank

[MEDITECH-L] ABS UR and NUI

Has anyone else had problems with the NUI menus and UR routines after going to 5.5. We can't use the View routine. Sandy -- Sandra Covington IS Director Southside Community Hospital 800 Oak Street Farmville, VA 23901 434-315-2655 == This e-mail

[MEDITECH-L] re: Infection Control Monitoring

I was just wondering how often other hospitals are asking patients about diarrhea. Our infection control nurse wants to ask about diarrhea each shift. How are other hospitals monitoring / tracking c-diff in the patient population? Maria P. McPherson, RN Nursing Informatics Analyst Columbus

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Getting PDF Documents into PCI

Hi, I am working with another vendor and MEDITECH to make this possible. I am attempting to launch PDF with dynamic image of HEART investigations thru PCI and good news is it is possible and I will be testing very soon. If this is what you are looking for than please give me a call. Thank you.

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute Help

This is what we use. The report is for Radiology as we do not have ITS. The attribute on the cds query SCHRADMAM is: Enter/Edit Attributes: SCHRADMAM IFE=IF{/["ea"]^/R.FRAG.MRIURN 1, IFE=%Z.rw.fragment("RADRW.EXAM.zcus.frag.rad.to.sch.R","RADRW.ANV"), IFE=P(R,S,/R.FRAG.VAL["

[MEDITECH-L] Coding revisits for daily billing

I am looking for any sites that are billing recurring accounts on a daily basis and have developed a process to overcome the issues surrounding the coding of revisits in ABS. The problem that we are running into has to do with the inability to have visit diagnosis and APC information flow to BA

[MEDITECH-L] Locking Down Meditech Screen Resolution Settings

Good Day, I am inquiring the Meditech-L group to determine if there is a way to lock down the Screen Resolution settings for the Meditech 4.x clients. We are trying to implement an iKey scripting solution here at St. Mary's General Hospital and we have a need to prevent users from changing the

[MEDITECH-L] Nursing Handhelds for BMV and Phlebotomy

Does anyone have nursing using handhelds for BMV and phlebotomy? Do you use one handheld device or two? We are a new Meditech C/S customer going live with 5.62 in December. Thank you, Karen Birkenholz, MT (ASCP) Lab LIS Analyst Norman Regional Health System 405.307.1135 CONFIDENTIALITY

[MEDITECH-L] Acuity Use in Meditech

Hello, The nursing staff at our hospital system wants to utilize the acuity system within Meditech. The nurses currently document in PCS and want to use their documentation to drive the acuity levels of their patients. If your hospital has found the use of acuity to be successful in managing pati

[MEDITECH-L] Clinical Analyst in NC

Clinical Systems Analyst in Information Technology Manages a variety of tasks based on interrelationships of clinical and administrative applications to hospital applications to ensure efficient operation of all systems. Works with Cli

[MEDITECH-L] OPS Show and Tells

> What's a Show & Tell? > A Show & Tell is short, informative session presented by a Facility > user (sorry, no Commercial member presenters please). Each Show & Tell > session is specific to a particular module. A Show & Tell presentation > is about 15-20 minutes in duration. The presentation ne

[MEDITECH-L] Solicitinb ABS Peer Group Submissions for MUSE

As ABS Peer Group Leader, I am looking for some show & tell presentations in the 5-15 minute range for International MUSE in May. Anyone with resolutions to difficult problems or other useful information to share is encouraged to contact me. Douglas B. McGaw Newman Regional Health 1201 W. 12t

RE: [MEDITECH-L] International MUSE 2007 PHA - Show and Tell Time & JamSession

Hey Herb- Besides the Notifications, I was thinking about real-time LAB VERIFY rules, and maybe a Pharmacy Tracker I've been working on if there's interest. Med Rec is so big right now; maybe some other reports too (besides that side-by-side) since a lot of sites unfortunately don't have their Dru

RE: [MEDITECH-L] RE: 1500'S Specifications for electronic form

Bear in mind that for this feature there is one BIG difference between LSS and Meditech. LSS allows multiple different printers to be defined, by printer. Meditech does not have this feature. I've asked for it, and been denied. This means that every meditech claims printer must be the same

[MEDITECH-L] BMV Training Material

We are fixing to go up with BMV in Meditech 5.4. I was wondering if anyone out there had any training material that they would like to share. Thank you, Terry Price Clinical Systems Analyst/PACS Administrator, MCSE Great Plains Regional Medical Center Elk City, OK 580.303.5883 =*=*

[MEDITECH-L] remote access constant disconnect(MT c/s)

Meditech C/S, 5.4.3 (5.5.2 in Universe) Windows 2000 servers with mixture of Win XP and W2K desktops connecting remotely Within the last two months, some of our doctor's offices have been reporting that their EMR session is locking up and a few have reported that they are being disconnected mult

[MEDITECH-L] NPR report

We are currently working on improving our patient education regarding possible side effects of new medications. Is there any way that a person could use the med reconciliation process to somehow flag orders that differ from those taken at home? If we could create a flag or a list for nursing,

[MEDITECH-L] NUR attribute

Hi All, I'm trying to use an attribute that is designed to check the patient's careplan for an intervention (in this case the intervention is #54001). If the intervention is active, the cursor will skip the current query. I got this from the L a while ago, but I keep getting a syntax error:

[MEDITECH-L] Intl MUSE 2007 - PCI Show & Tell Volunteers..Come one, come all

Greetings all! Yes, International MUSE will soon be upon us and I know that you have been anxiously waiting for an opportunity to do a brief Show and Tell session in the "Patient Care Inquiry Peer Group". You can just do a brief highlight on something new and innovative at your organization, or ju

[MEDITECH-L] HR Hiring and Termination Process

I would like to know what others are doing to remove access for those employees who have been termination or resigned. Sometimes our HR department does not get this information until days or weeks later. We want to streamline this process so all access can be disabled properly. Can you share your

[MEDITECH-L] Attribute Help

Hello, I have 2 Y/N queries and I'm trying to combine 2 attributes on one so that it is required if the previous query is answered "Y" and also be able to use the mousetribute query to double click Y/N as well. The first Y/N query is EDM.EMUDif answered "Y" the second Y/N query is requi

[MEDITECH-L] integration between MEDITECH and medtronic EMG machine

Hello, We are looking into the possibility of interfacing a Medtronic EMG machine to MEDITECH for the reports. If you have done this and are willing to speak with us, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your help! Thank you, Nicole A. Heim Clinical Systems Analyst Milford Regional M

[MEDITECH-L] BMV-scanning the NDC/RX into the dose field

Hi All, Since going live with BMV, we have not been able to prevent the nurses from scanning the RX or NDC into the dose field. This is not for every med. It happens with our 0 dose and with Non-formulary meds( we have a med named non-form and we put the med into the dose instructions.) I run a

[MEDITECH-L] PATIENT ID CARD SYSTEM

Does anyone use a patient ID Card system? We are looking to provide some type of patient card to all of our patients. The card would contain PT name, DOB and a barcode that would have the medical record number etc. IF you have, would you be willing to answer a few questions about how you impl

[MEDITECH-L] pharmacy label-datamax m class c/s 5.5 sr2

I am working with my NPR person to create new Pharmacy labels to include bar codes for BMV. We have purchased a Datamax 4208 M class printer. We are testing a 3x1 continuous label, looking to go to a 3.5x1 continuous label. We copied our existing NPR label (which printed on a microline printer) and

[MEDITECH-L] Interfacing Pulmonary Function Machine with Meditech

Hi. Anyone interfacing the Collins Eagle pulmonary function machine with Meditech? We are MAGIC 5.5.2. Curious if the graphics can be displayed and any special considerations or problems setting this up. Thanks for any information. Steve Bilyeu, HCIS Analyst Information Systems Williamson M

Re: [MEDITECH-L] 5.5 Magic; interface with glucometer, Abbott Precision PCx

We are interfaced with Abbott and Meditech, but am not sure what to share. Pretty much of the scripting was set up by Sybase. Roberta Cranswick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Clinical Systems Project Manager Willamette Falls Hospital 1500 Division Street Oregon City, Oregon 97045 503-656-1631 ext. 3483

[MEDITECH-L] CAH TOB

How are other CAH getting their TOB to print correctly? We have "851" hard coded on one claim and then another claim form for Lab Specs that calculate to 141. However, our Medicare specialist just told me that there are certain "lab tests" with no venipuncture charge that also need to be 141. Thank

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Migrating from Meditech Magic to MeditechClientServer

We are also client server and are one of the first hospitals to migrate from Magic to Client Server. We reboot our servers once a month which seems to work well for us. Have never had to reboot more frequently than that. Downtime is usually around 1.5 hours. Thanks, Betty From: meditech

[MEDITECH-L] Your Friendly Lab IPGL Seeking Volunteers - Nag, nag, whine, whine

Hi all you MEDITECH Lab folks, Just an update and a plea for additional volunteers. I have two volunteers to date (thank you, thank you, thank you to those two generous souls), but still need additional volunteers. That is only about an hour out of two hours that need to be filled up for our

[MEDITECH-L] Do you need MEDITECH UB04 assistance?

NEW BILLING FORMAT (UB04) ASSISTANCE IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM INTECK! The deadline for new billing formats is very close! Let Inteck help you with the build, testing and support of the new billing requirements. There is no excuse why your facility should NOT be ready to submit those bills correc

RE: [MEDITECH-L] CWS questions

Please reply to ALL on the 'L'. Thanks, Pam -Original Message- From: Paul Goedicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:57 PM To: Meditech-L (E-mail) Subject: [MEDITECH-L] CWS questions We are in the beginning stages of setting up a Centralized Scheduling office.

RE: [MEDITECH-L] COWs vs. PCs in the room for BMV

We have PC's in the room in ICU and L&D; the rest of the units have COW's. There are advantages and disadvantages to both and you need to decide what works best for you. Here are some questions to consider: Is wall space an issue for PC installation? Is there a ledge or table that can be placed u

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Scanning in AP

Please post responses to list. Thanks, Valorie Comley Assistant Controller Memorial Hospital Belleville, Illinois "Caracciolo, Angie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: meditech-l@mtusers.com 03/08/2007 02:51 PM To cc "Boisclair, Dee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tisdale, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PRINTING A SCHEDULED REPORT TO MAIL

Shirley, I have a report that goes to several users' Outlook e-mail accounts via an OA MSG process. Here it is. Note the various macros. This report is called by the following attribute: IFE=1 DFT="Y" FCL1=IF{1 %MIS.OA.MSG.auto("NLC IND",Q), [EMAIL PROTECTED]("NLC Induction Notifications have been