[MEDITECH-L] {Spam?} Re: PHA Directions - 14 days on, 14 days off

How about enter the original, 14-day span, set it to deactivate at the end of the 14th day AND set the reactivate date for the start of the next cycle, so-on-and-so-forth... though I'm not sure if this is any better than Jeff's suggestion, below. Good luck!   Richard     Richard LeeStaff Pharmaci

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Access to eMAR

I believe it is usually accomplished via the use of Citrix or Terminal services allowing centralization of the data. Arthur Young Interbit Data, Inc. (508) 647-0013 x114 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davis Daniel - Southern Hill

[MEDITECH-L] Third Party Wound Center interfacing with Meditech

We are a magic 5.5 site. I was wanting to know if there are any sites that have implemented a third party system for the Wound Center/HBO and if it interfaces with Meditech. Thanks, Wendy Wendy Simmons Sr. Systems Analyst Butler Memorial Hospital 724-284-4795 [EMAIL PROTECTED] =*=*=*=*=*=

[MEDITECH-L] OA... or NUR rules?

I've received a user request. One group of clinicians wants to send an automated message to another group of clinicians based on an answer choice to an O type query. Specifically, if the speech therapists select the answer "refer to RD", they want the RD's to receive a message. Is anyone in the moo

[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

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy rule

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has been able to get query responses to default into a PHA CDS during order entry without the pharmacist accessing them. See my issue below. We have had a task open for 4 years with no resolution. If you have any better ideas THE WHY: I want to create default r

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Medical Necessity Requirements Dictionary

CONTACT MEDITECH We have been having this issue for a year or more and have been dealing with Meditech constantly. They have recently put a group on this because apparently more of you are contacting them and they realize they are having a problem. At first they kept blaming our network

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Medical Necessity Requirements Dictionary

We are having this problem also with no help from Meditech. Dan Haynes Applications Coordinator Magnolia Regional Health Center 611 Alcorn Dr Corinth, MS 38834 662-293-1127 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carol Higley Sent:

Re: [MEDITECH-L] POP UPS - NUR

Julie, How are you triggering your pop up? Do you have copies of the queries that are on your pop up on your main screen following a "break" query? Read the article regarding pop ups on www.itnurse.net . Daniel Davis From: [E

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Medical Necessity Requirements Dictionary-BACKGROUND JOB A * IST NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY

Imagine my surprise to see this today since we just reported the IST job issue yesterday. Fortunately, our response from Meditech was: Duffy,Bill (MEDITECH) - Jun 19, 2007 - 1754 EDT: The IST is aborting on a PHA transaction, we're trying to kill a data node but the "/" prefix is not open. I

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

I agree 100%. I can name off the top of my head about a dozen programming errors in the last year alone that have cost us dearly, both financially and to our users who lost functionality of a field, a routine, and sometimes, the whole system. They've overwritten customs with DTSes, made typos in

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Access to eMAR

What a problem for Windows PCs! It doesn't sound like as much of a problem for *nix PCs, however. You would actually be logging into your own session on a server, locking it, and then coming back to it. Don't think Meditech works with the *nix systems yet, though. Donald F. Stewart -Original

[MEDITECH-L] Position available in Chicago

System / Help Desk Analyst Provide primary User Account Maintenance and Help Desk Support in a 2000+ user environment. Strong working knowledge of Windows and a background in a Help Desk environment within an Information Technology team; knowledge of healthcare and the Meditech (Hospital Infor

[MEDITECH-L] MRI Electronic deficiencies not completing from ITS to MRI

Hello All, I have been dealing with the following issue for 4 weeks now, and not really getting anywhere fast with Meditech. In brief: We upgraded to CS 5.5.2 on April 25th. A few weeks after, we noticed that not all of our electronic deficiencies that begin in ITS and send a corresponding I

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

Yes indeed! Include us on the petition. At this moment we are having major problems with the conversion from the UB92 to the UB04. The bottom line effect is that we are having major delays in submission to the sundry payers and the AR Days are climbing. Part of the problem is that at no time

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Provider Dictionary Questions

I would be interested in this information as well. Thanks, Liz Elizabeth S. Thurston Physician Informatics Specialist Johnston Memorial Hospital 509 N. Bright Leaf Blvd. Smithfield, NC 27577 Phone: (919)938-7153 Fax: (919)934-7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

[MEDITECH-L] FW: ER Software

We are in an advanced stage of selecting a vendor for our ER documentation (including CPOE/BMV/NUR). If you use an "EDM" type software, would you, or someone from your facility, please take the time to respond to this survey? 1) What vendor (if Meditech, which version)? 2) How long has software

[MEDITECH-L] {Spam?} RE: Label Waste

Elizabeth, You are awesome! This is the answer we have looked for on and off for 2+ years. I knew about the "print blank label between patients" prompt and we have played with that in the past to no avail. Thank you very much! Have a fabulous day! -- Bill Palmer Information Systems Financ

[MEDITECH-L] Agency Nurses

I saw some messages going around about agency nurses.  I was wondering if you look for nurses who are already trained in Meditech before you hire them from the agency.  We are a company that places nurses and we're thinking about giving them classes in OE and NUR.  We are wondering if you think t

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Agency Nurses

I would think that with Meditech now making up about 24% of the market place for HCIS and growing that it would be a prudent business practice for a company supplying nursing staff that had a base knowledge of Meditech Functionality in NUR and OE. This way only facility specific processes would hav

Re: [MEDITECH-L] small Datamax printers

The E-Class DOES use the same programming as the G & I-class. The one thing I'd mention however is that the I-class has a few functions the E-class doesn't support so the E class just ignores them. If you review the Programming Guide they denote the functions each Class Supports. Hope it helps!

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

Hi Charlie, I am in agreement with you 100%. There was a BAR issue that was opened several months ago that was supposed to fix an issue that was happening when screening a claim. When they moved the changes in to "fix" this problem, users noticed that when they went to edit or view a claim, t

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

Charlie: I would like to think that Meditech is as conscious about quality as any corporation in this business, but obviously there is room to speculate. Interesting that the issue you site is related to Pharmacy. I have been absolutely amazed over the past 4 years of the number problems we h

[MEDITECH-L] {Spam?}

We are a CS 5.5.2 site. As we continue to move forward with the advanced clinicals, (PCS,eMAR,EDM, PCM, RXM etc.) Medical records is finding it increasingly difficult to produce a printed copy of the record upon discharge. Our state does not currently recoginize the electronic record as the lega

Re: [MEDITECH-L] {Spam?}

1. Meditech should assist you in meeting your state's requirements. 2. Your state should join the rest of us in the 21st century. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:53 AM To: meditech-l@mtusers.com Subject

Re: [MEDITECH-L] {Spam?}

Our state does not currently recoginize(sic) the electronic record as the legal medical record. Somehow this statement seems suspect to me. Google agrees: http://www.google.com/search?q=massachusetts+%22electronic+medical+recor d (note the first government website returned) _

Re: [MEDITECH-L] {Spam?}

Hold up. Google also contradicts if you add "legal medical record": http://www.google.com/search?q=massachusetts+%22electronic+medical+recor d%22+%22legal+medical+record Websites returned here seem to support the statement, but I don't see any "official" stance. Seems ambiguous to me. _

Re: [MEDITECH-L] (no subject)

Please post Kimberly J. Hendrix Clinical Informatics Analyst Newberry County Memorial Hospital 2669 Kinard Street PO Box 497 Newberry SC 29108 (803) 276-7570 ext. 279 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE NOTE: My email address has changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Third Party Wound Center interfacing with Meditech

Please post responses to the list - thank you! Rick Edwards Senior Director - CIO Howard County General Hospital 5755 Cedar Lane Columbia, MD 21044 (410) 740-7230 (410) 740-7565 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ From: Simmons, Wendy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20,

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Medical Necessity Requirements Dictionary-BACKGROUND JOB A * IST NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY

How Ironic Our problem child is the Pharmacy module mainly as well. Others apps suffer like MIS on filing users but Pharmacy reports slowness almost every day. In fact, Meditech has an appointment with one of our Pharmacists Monday to watch their job while they are working to see if they c

Re: [MEDITECH-L] {Spam?}

I'm not sure there is much of a distinction between Meditech as an electronic record and Meditech as a printed record. Now, I only have experience within HCA's version of Meditech. But my experience is that after 45 days the record archives and we are no longer able to access the record through V

RE: [MEDITECH-L] {Spam?}

I don't know if this is possible but when I did a search for Berkshire Medical Center it is in Pittsfield Massachusettes. Can that possibly be true in the same state that Meditech is based in?! Liz From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

[MEDITECH-L] Clinical Alerts

BlankHello and help. Our docs are complaining about not seeing abnormal results. I have the recent abnormal result indicator in PCI set, but it shows five days worth of info. The docs want some type of notification that they have a lab or rad that needs to be looked at. Is there some way I ca

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Labels from Trailer Line needing fragment

I want to say thank you to all those who sent help. The idea of calling my fragment from the macro was the one that worked. Thanks again! This list is awsome. Shirley Hammack I.T. Financial Analyst Jackson County Memorial Hospital 580-477-7484 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@mtus

[MEDITECH-L] Attribute help again please

Hello L: Attribute help again please, as I seem to not be able to get this one to work. I have one date query. If the date that is entered is more than 30 days ago, I want a message to appear, but not forbid the user from going on. I either get a message all the time or no message at all, so so

[MEDITECH-L] EDM physician favorites

Has anyone had the problem of medications not showing up on eMAR when physician orders them from his favorites. It is not an access problem because when he orders the meds through order sets and medications routine everything seems to work fine. Meditech can not figure it out for me. I only

Re: [MEDITECH-L] {Spam?}

Yes it is true Berkshire Medical Center is in Pittsfield Massachusetts, (home state to Meditech) and while we are awaiting legislation that will allow us to maintain an electronic record we are "stuck" with the way it is. Is anyone using any other solution? Thanks again, Danielle J. Peppard RN

[MEDITECH-L] ED Service Date/Time

Hello Everyone, For those sites utilizing the EDM module, what service date and time are you entering during the ED registration process? Do you just accept the current date and time default as the service date and time? If so, do you ever find that this affects your billing particularly if t

[MEDITECH-L] Date Conversion

Hello Lr's, I'm trying to pull out the Target Date from the Care Plan to an NUR CDS. The attribute works but the date format is MMDD. I want it to show as MM/DD/ just like how it appears on the care plan. This is the attribute that I have: IFE=IF{:NPC[aa]D[1]G[1]|5^/VAR, IFE=/VAR^/[ANS%0,[^

[MEDITECH-L] {Spam?} RXM (historical meds)report for Magic

Hi, Does anyone have any AOM/RXM Historical med reports for Magic that they would be willing to share? Thanks! Terry Angeloni Clinical Application Specialist II Provena Health Information Services 2175 W. Oneida St. Joliet, IL 60435 Ph: 815-730-2858 Fx: 815-744-7565 [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Agency Nurses

The only issue I see with this is the differences across facilities. Facilities have different menu set up, different documentation, and different processes (for example, may be using a paper process (I can't believe I said that) for some documentation and electronic for others.). They may be usin

[MEDITECH-L] EMTALA and OUTPATIENT CLINICS

If you are a hospital with an outpatient clinic, and are doing medical screening exams before registration please share what you are doing to meet EMTALA regs. Elizabeth Coler Norton Sound Health Corporation Nome, AK 99762 907-443-3239 [EMAIL PROTECTED] NORTON SOUND HEALTH CORPORATION P.O. BO