[MEDITECH-L] Where can we share data?? Try the meditech-l WikiPedia

Hi, everybody, I installed a WikiPedia at MTUsers.net/mwiki just for this sort of usage. My intent over time is that the WikiPedia may become such a knowledgebase that it can offload some of the work from the email list. We all want and need the list to work as efficiently as it can. Any of yo

RE: [MEDITECH-L] AGENCY NURSE DOCUMENTATION ORIENTATION

We have a training program in place (currently a LIVE body, but working on transitioning to Healthstream for the teaching and LIVE charting scenario in a 1 hr validation session by Fall). We cover both NURDOC and eMAR/BMV in about 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 hrs, depending on how "savvy" the up to 14 nurses in

RE: [MEDITECH-L] AGENCY NURSE DOCUMENTATION ORIENTATION

Ugh! I worked at a place that also struggled, where there was no float pool, and where agency staff could comprise 1 out of 3 nurses working on any given shift on the inpatient side. Maybe you will get an inspiration from my experience. I certainly don't have any bright ideas. The travele

RE: [SPAM] [MEDITECH-L] Clinical Business Analyst Positions Available

I must agree, this part of the "L" is for end users to post questions to other users and if a vendor feels that he/she want to answer they can. If an end user is moving to another city and wants to know if there is a facility looking in the new area that is OK because it is an end user. But if a co

RE: [MEDITECH-L] INTERQUAL

Our site implemented interqual several years ago, however it is not linked to Meditech. I'm not sure if I can be of help. Midas is our application for Care Management. Elizabeth -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kane, Pete Sent: Monday,

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Sumter Regional Hospital

Hi, Mike, How about an update on your progress and what remains to be done? Julia Julia Carter, CPAR Consultant Consultant People 396 W Main Street Lewisville, TX 75057-3866 LL 469.948.4000 Ext 308 [EMAIL PROTECTED] e http://www.cpeople.org   -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUser

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Access to eMAR

I can see the need for the additional authentication (although as a nurse I would prefer that this not be necessary!) The difference in paper versus electronic documentation is that on paper, you have an opportunity to examine handwriting to determine whether the documentation was forged by ano

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Immunizations

We document them in Admission Assessment and it stays in the EMR for future reference. Judy Johnston, LVN, IT Analyst NUR Hillcrest Baptiest Medical Center Waco, Texas 76708 Office: (254) 202-5661 Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL P

[MEDITECH-L] NPR RW macro help needed

Could someone please help me with the NPR report macro used in the following example? Advanced Attribute Defaulting a response from a previous OE order Default the most recent response to the same query for the same category and procedure. This is only for defaulting a previous OE order query res

RE: [MEDITECH-L] ADM.PAT/LAB Report for Decrease of Platelets by 50% orMore

Hi Deb, This can be done in a report, but if you have Picis QM system, this would be great as a worksheet.  You could set it up as an occurrence search and have the system create worksheets automatically every night for you.  So each morning when you come in, the info on the patient is already th

Re: [MEDITECH-L] [SPAM] Clinical Business Analyst Positions Available

I agree with Daniel, there is a difference. Also, just wanted to say thanks to Daniel for the help he has given on the L list, over the years. Thanks, Carlo Angione Programmer Analyst II Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Information Services Mason F. Lord Building, Suite 5000, 5th Floor 49

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Sumter Regional Hospital

Hi, Mary, Here is the link from the Sumter Regional web site, http://www.sumterregional.org. https://secure.fasthealth.com/web_srh2_ga/forms/?formID=2641 It may be 3 years+ before the hospital has a new facility. Since I live in SW Georgia as well and worked at the hospital in my home town, I

[MEDITECH-L] Generic HP Driver on Meditech C/S Print Server?

Hi, We are a Magic site well underway on a conversion to Client Server. As we begin to setup the 1000+ printers in C/S on the MEDITECH Print Server the question arose can we utilize a generic "HP LaserJet PCL 5 driver" for all HP Printers? This would not be for "Local" printing on the PC, only pr

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Medical Necessity Requirements Dictionary

Hi, Jay, When I updated the Medical Necessity requirements dictionary at Colquitt, I did it during my regular work day. Yes, the filing took a while, but we never encountered any of the issues that you mention. Unrelated to the Medical Necessity dictionary, though, we (Colquitt) did not

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Immunizations

We document the immunization history in the Admission Assessment but any immunizations given during the inpatient stay are documented in the Emar with the CDS like Roy stated below. -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judy Johnston Sen

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Access to eMAR

Would proximity cards not be helpful in the situations you describe? -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenny Whiteside Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meditech-l@MTUsers.c

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Hemochron Point-of-Care Testing

We are using the Hemachrom Jr Signature for ACT in our Interventional Radiology Department - we do not import or manually enter any results into MediTech (we decided it would be too confusing for everyone since they are only using the result to know when to pull the sheath), the Interventional Radi

[MEDITECH-L] PHA Directions - 14 days on, 14 days off

Hi, We have a medication order to be given daily for two weeks every month for a long term care resident. Short of creating 14 separate daily orders, is there a better way to schedule this medication? We'd like something that does not require Pharmacy intervention each month to restart the 14

[MEDITECH-L] Calling NPR Report from Query Response

Hello... We are Client Server 5.5 SR 2 and I need to call an NPR report through a print rule in OE if the patient has Medicare or Medicare Advantage insurance. Has anyone developed such a print rule or had any success with accomplishing this? Thanks in advance for any help!! Naomi R. Armstron

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Where can we share data?? Try the meditech-l WikiPedia

There is a already a site set up called www.meditechtalk.com. There are lots of forums set up and places to upload/download reports, documents, etc. Check it out. Thanks, Donna Roemer Information Systems Department Deborah Heart and Lung Center 609-893-1200 x4742 [EMAIL PROTECTED

[MEDITECH-L] Medical Necessity Requirements Dictionary

I am curious if anyone else has problems when during and after the filing of the MIS Medical Necessity Requirements dictionary. Our Patient Accounting manager is the one in charge of this dictionary. She usually updates this dictionary in the middle of the night from home, because it appears t

[MEDITECH-L] Therapeutic Phlebotomy bags

Anyone have an economical source for Therapeutic Phlebotomy bags other than FBC etc? They are costing us more than Medicare will reimburse. As usual. Thanks Betty Dollar BSMT, (ASCP), MHS LIS Coordinator Bert Fish Medical Center 401 Palmetto St. New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168 ph 1.386.4

[MEDITECH-L] Valco Scanning - PCI Viewing

Hello Everyone, Any advice or insight on how you have set up/built scanned documents for ease of VIEWING in PCI would be much appreciated. We just completed our first training for Valco's Scanning/Archival Product. We are a none ODA site Magic 5.5 SR 2. Our assignment is to build categories and a

Re: [MEDITECH-L] NUR Status Board BBK crossmatched unit flagging

Hi Paul, Magic 5.5 introduces the TAR (Transfusion Administration Record) in the NUR module. As part of this, there is a column available for the NUR Status Board that displays a Green "Ready" flag whenever a unit of blood is crossmatched. Once issued from the BBK, the flag changes to "Issued

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Access to eMAR

Perhaps! I'm not an IT person... but my understanding of proximity cards is that they simply lock the computer or automatically log the user off. That might help prevent the need for additional authentication once logged in if no one else can access that computer until the logged in user retur

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Access to eMAR

We are bringing up the proximity and single sign-on programs in the Citrix environment with the hope (if all goes well in testing/trial) that any healthcare provider in our institution will be able to log on to all of their aps with their fingerprint (and maybe a password). The proximity badge will

[MEDITECH-L] MAGIC DR alternatives?

All, What are you using for your Data Repository needs? Specifically, I was intrigued by Dimensional Insights solution. Anybody using this software? If so, can you expand on some pros and cons? In addition, what groups or departments most benefit from a DR? Do I really need to spend 7 or hig

[MEDITECH-L] FW: NPR RW macro help needed

This is not a NPR Macro... This is a CDS Screen attribute... Even though the coding looks the same, the logic wouldn't work within NPR alone... What are you trying to do? Damian A Shepard Systems Analyst Information Systems Telephone: (802) 447-5165

[MEDITECH-L] Merging 2 Accounts

I would like to know what other hospitals are doing when a Medicare patient is re-admitted within 72 hours of discharge with the same admitting diagnosis. 1. Are you keeping the 2 admissions with 2 separate account numbers and just billing them as 1 admission.? 2. Do you undo the first

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Access to eMAR

Deb, I was just discussing this very possibility last week. One question we were pondering. If a Meditech session is "Parked" and the user goes home, if there is a session time out, will the Meditech session job close or remain open and possibly locks remain intact? Thanks, Kenny Whiteside

[MEDITECH-L] (no subject)

Hello Everyone, We have just gone live with PCS. Has anyone done a calorie count in Meditech or the dietician and nursing? If so would you be willing to share? Thanks Susan Susan Ottmers RN BSN Nurse Clinical Analyst Hill Country Memorial Hospital (830)990-6622 =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*

RE: [MEDITECH-L] NPR RW macro help needed

When calling a macro the whole NPR doesn't really run, so none of that matters. The NPR is simply a holding place for the macro. Daniel Davis From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Roberts Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:04 AM To:

[MEDITECH-L] Televox

Wondering if there are any CS hospitals who use TELEVOX and if so, willing to share with us the export file for download? Thank you in advance. Riquie Martin Goodall Hospital Administrative Analyst Direct: 207-490-7759 / Main : 207-324-4310 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [MEDITECH-L] FW: NPR RW macro help needed

Actually... CDS Screen attribute: DFT=%OE.ORD.zcus.tjt.dft.M.prev.resp(/["aa"],"QUERY") Calls a macro, "prev.resp" that is attached to the NPR "OE.ORD.zcus.tjt.dft", passing parameters A /["aa"], and B "QUERY". The macro code he has: A^PT, B^QRY, ""^SD^RESP, DO{-?POE[PT,SD]^SD&'RESP ""

Re: [MEDITECH-L] PHA Directions - 14 days on, 14 days off

Well, the only way I can think of is to enter the order for the 14-day span (start and stop) and then copy and edit it 11 times to cover the whole year. (MAGIC) Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 _

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Medical Necessity Requirements Dictionary

Hi Julia, I understand what you are saying regarding the user dictionary. It usually takes the same amount of time for a user to become visible in other areas. However, the user never showed up in the Copy Access Dictionaries or the Nurse Dictionary in NUR when I was trying to set up the user.

[MEDITECH-L] Off MEDITECH Topic

What websites do you use or recommend using as a tool for calculations for nurses (ie. OB Pregnancy wheel,) Thanks in advance! Cristina C. Kimball, BSN, RN Manager, Clinical Informatics Pacific Alliance Medical Center 531 W. College St. Los Angeles, Ca 90012 Ph: (213) 437-4214 Fax: (213) 617-9

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Sumter Regional Hospital

Glad to see this...I am a graduate of Ga Southwestern University in Americus and too would like to be able to throw my 2 cents in Thanks, Susan :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Carter Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:17 A

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Datamax bold font

I cannot change the size, because the label pieces are pretty tight as is. I did find a way around it - sort of. I accessed the printer from my computer desktop, selected properties and then fonts. I then chose to download fonts and selected Arial Bold. It was assigned an ID of S50. So for the pt

[MEDITECH-L] UB04 RED FORM LINE SKIP

We have set up our new UB04 claims using access e-forms and red forms. The eforms are working great. However, when printing a red UB04 form to an HP4200 printer, it works great for awhile and then inexplicably skips the first line and continues to skip a line for every form afterward until we

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Access to eMAR

As I understand using proximity cards in conjunction with a single sign on product, they are supposed to work exactly as you outlined. You should be able to walk away and resume your session on a different device wherever you left off. I know that I have seen demo's that do that, but they were no

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Access to eMAR

Now that's a neat trick if you can do it! Think of the logistics involved with grabbing the complete state of everything on a PC and then recreating that on a different PC anywhere on the network. That would nearly require that the PC reboot for each user, and all of that data would have to be tr

[MEDITECH-L] POM USERS

Hi, Right now our physicians place an order using POM for a vancomycin trough and then enter an arbitrary time for the peak, just to get the order in where it requires a date time, even though it might not fall in the time frame after the med is given. How do you enter these 'action' type o

[MEDITECH-L] Observation change

We are Magic 5.4 and for whatever reason have had our account type dictionary in BAR with I for our observation accounts. In the g/l these are considered outpatient but BAR captures them as inpatient. What might be our repercussions if changed to O for outpatient? If anyone still uses the I in

[MEDITECH-L] NPR Launch from CDS problem since 5.6 upgrade

I recently found out that since our upgrade to 5.6 my attributes to launch NPR reports no longer perform as expected. When the NPR report closes the CDS screen is no longer visible. The user is still in the CDS, but the query prompts are no longer there. The immediate action favored by the users is

[MEDITECH-L] purpose of ELF cartridge for the MDS?

I know of hospitals in New York and Utah that simply print the MDS out of Meditech. They do not use an ELF printer to simply make a form that looks like CMS's paper form. I have not seen any evidence that surveyors care one whit about the form. Of course, they do care about the data. What are p

[MEDITECH-L] POP UPS - NUR

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any problems and solutions to the use of pop ups in NUR within a CDS. We recently updated to Meditech 5.61 and the pop ups now do not save any data when a user attempts to edit the pop up screens from the initial documentation. Did anyone encounter this same proble

[MEDITECH-L] Documenting Professional Designation

Hi, we are Magic and just updated to 5.61 Meditech. How are facilities documenting the staff associated professional designations (RPN, RN, RT, MD, etc) in Meditech? We are having a problem with all the names and the professional designation viewable on every screen, print out, edited assessme

[MEDITECH-L] Read: OE Order Rule Assistance Request

Your message To: E-Mail MEDITECH (E-mail) Subject: OE Order Rule Assistance Request Sent:Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:11:57 -0500 was read on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:17:38 -0500 <>=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit http://mtusers.com/ma

[MEDITECH-L] Provider Dictionary Questions

I have researched the topic of the Provider Dictionary in regards to inactivating providers and how other modules are affected by this. I have asked Meditech questions regarding this issue, but I am unsure if I got any straightforward answers. I have some questions regarding this dictionary as we

Re: [MEDITECH-L] NPR Launch from CDS problem since 5.6 upgrade

Gord- We experienced a problem that sounds close to what you are describing and found the resolution at: http://www.thomast357.com/magic_nprrpt.htm >From Tom's site: Update: 11/4/06 - I've been pointed to Meditech KB Article 13984 that has helped fix the screen corruption for some users. The