Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

We also just discovered this today! JEAN ARRIAGA, RN CLINICAL SYSTEMS ANALYST CHINO VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER 909 464-8921 e mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any attachments and/or files transmitted with it may contain PRIVILEGED or CONFIDENTIAL information

Re: [MEDITECH-L] EMAR/BMV questions

Hey Tristan- I use MIS Notifications and send it to the Status Board. Attached is something courtesy of Bill Mullins...a collection of "switch-links" I have found very useful. Later. Kevin McConnell, PharmD. Clinical Consultant (713)480-6810 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.RPhInformatics.com --

Re: [MEDITECH-L] patient home meds

We have an Order Type of POM which is set as Manual Dispense "YES". We have a Charge Type of POM with an attached Charge Formula of POM which charges a $12.00 handling charge per order. A charge of one is entered at order entry. The Pharmacist enters the order in this manner for a product with

Re: [MEDITECH-L] BUILDING PRORATION RULES - Contract Employees

We are looking to hire someone on a contract basis to write/update our existing B/AR Proration Rules. We are a MAGIC 5.4 site. Any recommendations - please provide contact information. Sandra Romanow,Applications Manager Piedmont Newnan Hospital 60 Hospital Road Newnan,Georg

[MEDITECH-L] Meditech Change Control Policy

Would anyone be willing to share their Meditech change control policy with me? I need to revise our policy and procedures. Thanks. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l_mtusers.com To check the

Re: [MEDITECH-L] SLOW LAB TATS

The DPM you probably want to use is LAB.C.ACT - I have attached a sample report that looks for specific tests. See the macro `start' which indexes specimens of interest. The report then uses the specimens of interest in LAB.L.SPEC ... >>> "Richardson, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/18/07 4:15 PM

[MEDITECH-L] ADM Edits crossing to Pyxis

In Pyxis, we have the Auto-Discharge parameters set to 24 hours for our ER, ACC, OR and Endo locations. Recently we noticed that when edits are done to patient accounts from these areas, ADT crosses over the interface and resets the discharge date. As a result patients appear active in Pyxis that h

[MEDITECH-L] Advanced Mathmatics for NPR?

Hi Folks, We are a Magic site and I have had a request for a report to do some complex type tasks One of the computations that they would like to have NPR do is equal to Excel's LN function... Information from Excel states the following: Returns the natural logarithm of a number. Na

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

Did Meditech provide you with a resolution to this problem? Are they aware of what caused the change? Tina Septer Adena Health System _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arriaga Jean Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 20:38 To: Sofia Osborne; meditech-l@m

Re: [MEDITECH-L] patient home meds

Janet, We initially allowed pts to bring in their own meds. We quickly realized that this was a huge mistake. As far as I know we were the only hospital in the area allowing this practice. Many times meds brought in were difficult to identify and required a huge amount of Pharmacy time to ve

Re: [MEDITECH-L] EMAR/BMV questions

We built 'drugs' and pharmacists now enter these when they order levels as reminders for nurses to draw/confirm collection. You can attach a simple CDS for nursing to when they full doc these orders. The set is attached. Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [MEDITECH-L] New hardware platform for Meditech Magic

I think this just makes the point of how important a good working relationship is from the beginning. There have been times I have been less than satisfied with Meditech and other vendors, but found that with direct communication and asking for additional assistance from vendor staff other than

[MEDITECH-L] Ortho ProVue interface update

Late yesterday, Ortho contacted us and discussed some additional patterns we recognized from their logs. We may have identified the true cause of the interface crash - the current process the Laboratory uses for quality control utilizes known patient blood cells (commercial control material has

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Different modules from Status Board

We use the Print Report routine also. We put everything under the Print Report button from previous menus along with several reports.. Our team members love it. Like Sharon said it just keeps growing! Karen Baylor, RN, BSN, MS Nursing Information Systems Analyst IT Department Upper Chesa

[MEDITECH-L] Job Descriptions: Surgical Schedulers - OR Control Desk Staff

Hello all, I have been asked to post this question the Meditech user group: Our Surgical Services department is in the process of re-writing the job descriptions for both our surgical schedulers and our OR control desk staff. Currently, they share one job description and we have been as

[MEDITECH-L] Meditechc Cath Lab using MT ORM module

Are there any Meditech (Magic) sites with CathLabs using the Meditech Operating Room Management module who'd be willing to share your experiences with us? We are Magic 5.61. Thanks. Kathy K. Smith, RHIT, CCS Sr Application Support Analyst St Joseph/Candler Health System Information Services Dep

[MEDITECH-L] Default attribute not saving value in field when CDS is filed

I have an attribute (see below) on 2 queries (Pregnant NURONPREG and Lactating NURONLAC) that looks at the patient's age and sex and defaults in a "N" as appropriate. The problem I am having is that the value is not being saved in the field when the CDS is filed. Can someone tell me what is w

[MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

i just opened a task with Meditech and received an immediate response: Ralli,Stefanie (MEDITECH) - Jul 19, 2007 - 1005 EDT: We have found PCI 6343 to resolve this issue. I'm adding this task to the Programmer's worklist to add PCI 6343. Pamela R. Gerbis, RN, MSN Clinical Support Analyst Meado

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

When I saw this message I forwarded it to the right person here to take a look at. This is her response: I just reviewed our query groups in PCI and they are working appropriately. This is a parameter setting in PCI, could it be that someone changed something at these hospitals without sharing?

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ADM Edits crossing to Pyxis

Bob, The same thing is happening to us! We are Pyxis RX2000. Our Pyxis Integration Engineer is adding code that will not allow an 'A08' message to come across the Pyxis for Outpatients 48 hours after of registration. 48 hours seemed like a good choice, certainly if anything major was wrong i

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Human Resources Systems

If we had to do our implementation over again for an HR system, I would DEFINITELY have pushed harder to stay with Meditech. The main reason for this was that it is very hard to split Payroll and Human Resources. Too much information is being gathered for one system that affects the other. Bene

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

I just got this update on the task I entered this morning: PCI 6343 Susan Susan Tanner, RN I.S. Nurse Coordinator Lourdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and priv

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

Meditech is working on PCI 6343 added to the site's In-house directory. (MEDITECH) - Jul 19, 2007 - 1021 EDT: This issue was caused by the way PCI stores data using an internal date format. Up until 7/18/07, the internal format was 4 digits for the day and 4 digits for the hour (.).

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech Change Control Policy

It is very simple. Any of the Analysts (all who word in ICT) can approve Meditech moving a change into TEST. I have four senior analysts and only they can approve moving changes into LIVE - one for Administratives, one for Clincials, one for Nursing and one for Financials. (They cover each other

Re: [MEDITECH-L] patient home meds

Remember also that your pharmacy is responsible for the integrity and safety of all medications dispensed in your facility, including those brought in from home. Are 15 different medications in one bottle or medications wrapped in a Kleenex still in date? Have they been stored as per manufactu

[MEDITECH-L] Anticoagulation Software

I am checking to see if anyone out in L Land is using anticoagulation software. I have a list of softwares and wondering about the pros/cons. AIM - Anticoagulation Information Manager AMP - Anticoagulation Management Program (Telehealth Suite) CoagClinic: The Management Solution for

Re: [MEDITECH-L] meditech-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 33

Hi Tim, Ours is written using lab.l.spec.number.index. Holler is you'd like me to send you our report. Good luck. Brenda Garris, MT(ASCP) LIS Manager Arlington Memorial Hospital Laboratory 817-548-6243 Message: 7 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:15:23 -0500 From: "Richardson, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[MEDITECH-L] Pulling info onto Status Board

Hello Everyone, We are using Magic 5.4. Our nurses are requesting that we add the e of Vital Signs onto the Status Board. Can anyone tell me how to pull this information besides adding a time query to the vial signs CDS? They also want to add the Total Intake and Output and Fluid Balance to

[MEDITECH-L] Average patient age

I was just asked to run a report to find the average age of our in patient population (and of course they wanted this yesterday) for 2006. I'm not sure how to get that. Anyone willing to share such a report or have suggestions on where to start? We are a Magic 5.5 facility Donna Chemelli, RHIT C

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

We got our fix yesterday at 1700 PST. No Downtime. That's odd that they are saying there is no fix yet. From: Stadig,Suzanne T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:43 AM To: Septer, Tina; Arriaga Jean; Sofia Osborne; meditech-l@mtusers.co

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Default attribute not saving value in field when CDS is filed

Hi Kimberley, Just notice you are missing the "/" as in: REQI=IF{(@p.ADM.PAT.age^AGE<10!(AGE>60))!(@p.ADM.PAT.sex="M") "N"^/VAL, REQI=P(R,S,/VAL^/[ANS%0,"NURONPREG"])^#,"";1} However you may as well write: REQI=IF{((@p.ADM.PAT.age^AGE<10)!(AGE>60))!(@p.ADM.PAT.sex="M") "N"^ REQI=/[ANS%0,/S

[MEDITECH-L] ORDERS OFF THE TRACKER

Has anyone encountered problems with ordering meds/labs/rad off the EDM tracker? Our issue is anyone who enters orders off the tracker is recognized as a physician and go in esigned, even if it is a nurse who entered a med. All orders off the tracker are recognized as POM orders even if not ente

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

Notification from Meditech this morning is that they are working on a DTS to correct this problem. No resolution at this time. Suzanne T. Stadig, RN | Clinical Project Supervisor | Anne Arundel Health System | 443-481-5227| fax: 443-481-5266 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fr

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ORM issues

HI Sandi, I discovered this when I was preparing to update an assessment CDS in ORM. After consulting with Meditech as was enlightened I did additional testing. I also wanted to see if the end user could get to the old CDS to edit or complete documentation after I made the switch to the new CDS. Th

[MEDITECH-L] Referance sites that have signed with Meditech Scan/Achieve solution

Was looking for sites that are looking or have purchased Meditech's Scan/Achieve solution. Thanks, Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ADM Edits crossing to Pyxis

Robert, we are Magic 5.5 SR2. We were having intermittent incidents of edits coming over, and Meditech actually applied a couple fixes to make them go away. The real problem with ours were that an OE order would pull in an earlier version of the patient info, so a patient who was now an inpatient w

[MEDITECH-L] GL Period Info

Hi Everyone A couple of days ago, I saw a post inquiring how to determine the GL Period to which a particular date belonged. After responding with a quick answer, which I fund out subsequemtly had a logic error in it, I thought about it and realized that this would be something for which

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Senior Network Analyst position in Maryland!

Kursten, This should be posted on UMBC's career center. They have a large alumni population. Alicia J. Rowe, MS, PHR Senior Director of HR Howard County General Hospital 410-740-7531; 410-740-7542 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Edwards, Rick Sent: Thursday,

[MEDITECH-L] Mass change in M/M Item Dictionary

Hi everyone, I am 3 months new to the Meditech software. We have a stock vendor who had to change their catalog item numbers. This requires a change to the M/M Item dictionary. All entries for this vendor will need to have the field labeled "Vend Catlg #" changed. I have an Excel spreads

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Human Resources Systems

Randolph Hospital is looking to contract the HR system with Meditech Client Server. It looks really good. Thanks, Nancy W Lucas Information Technology Randolph Hospital Asheboro, NC 27203 V:(336)328-4480 F:(336)625-0205 _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Default attribute not saving value in field when CDSis filed

Kim, It seems you may be confused regarding how/when the various attribute types are evaluated. Attribute types are evaluated in the following order: IFE - this is evaluated as the cursor touches the query, before any input can be entered. DFT - this is evaluated when the cursor stops on the

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

We just received this task from Meditech that addresses this issue: This task is being opened in order to address an issue where data displaying via the Group datasources was not displaying in Reverse-Chronological Order correctly. All data is present, however, as of 7/18/07 the data was not sor

[MEDITECH-L] BAR code in Bridge

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Re: [MEDITECH-L] Different modules from Status Board

We used the Print Reports button that way too -- attached a custom menu with links to the non-NUR routines they need. It would be nice if we could rename the button, but staff catch on quick. > -Original Message- > From: Witt, Sharon L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesd

Re: [MEDITECH-L] meditech-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 33

Please post to L -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:23 AM To: meditech-l@mtusers.com Subject: meditech-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 33 Send meditech-l mailing list submissions to meditech-

Re: [MEDITECH-L] UBO4

Actually I am hoping to prove Douglas wrong. Not for the sake of disparaging Douglas but to help the Meditech community. I have monitored these threads as we have yet to move to Laser printers for our UB printing but will soon. The key to alignment seems to be the ability to access the x and

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

This is what I got as a response when I opened a task this morning: "a number of sites have reported this and development already has a fix for this, PCI 6343. I have escalated the task and will have this patched into your directories. Thanks!" Linda Bulger, System Analyst Franklin Memorial

[MEDITECH-L] Attribute Help

I have an attribute that I have written that if 2 queries are answered a particular way a popup window comes up. The popup comes up but the screen hangs up with this attribute though and the user can't proceed through the rest of the screen. The attribute is: FCL1=(@.response>102)&([ANS,"NUR

[MEDITECH-L] BROTHER PRINTER

Magic 5.4 does/has anyone gotten a Brother Laser/Fax Intellifax 4750 to work in the world of Meditech as a remote printer? Minnie Roehe Systems Analyst OakBend Medical Center 1705 Jackson Street Richmond,Texas 77469 281-633-4046 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.oakbendmedcenter.org

Re: [MEDITECH-L] New hardware platform for Meditech Magic

Our experience with IBM servers has been excellent also. Donald F. Stewart Sr. Programmer Analyst (706)647-8111 x1696 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Upson Regional Medical Center 801 W. Gordon St. Thomaston, GA 30286 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

[MEDITECH-L] Getting started with RXM

We want to get started with using RXM. One of the purposes is for Med Reconciliation here in our hospital. Could you give us some direction on how to make sure things are set up correctly as far as actual use? Also the pharmacist is asking about Home Meds- Currently our nurses are listing th

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Advanced Mathmatics for NPR?

Damian: C/S already has a %Z.math function that will calculate things like LN, LOG, EXP, POWER, ABS, SIN, COS, etc. Perhaps Magic has that as well. Les Leslie Mann Applications Analyst Timmins and District Hospital Voice: 705-267-2131 x2147 Fax: 705-267-6321 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

Here's what just got from MEDITECH: "This task is being opened in order to address an issue where data displaying via the Group data sources was not displaying in Reverse-Chronological Order correctly. All data is present, however, as of 7/18/07 the data was not sorting properly on the History

[MEDITECH-L] Turnover questions

We are trying to find out what other magic facilities are using for an HR turnover report. We have tried developing them and having someone else develop them but the results just aren't what the HR staff is looking for. Any responses are welcome and much appreciated. Thanks Bill How am I

Re: [MEDITECH-L] New hardware platform for Meditech Magic

We have been working with JJWild since the early 1990's . . . Their value is in their relationship with both Meditech and the other vendors that work thru them to run Meditech applications. We tried the Dell route (when they were standalone in sales and support) and it took three months to get a qu

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

I was informed by Meditech the following DTS and they are currently working on this for us: PCI DTS 6343 should resolve this issue. Steve Bilyeu, HCIS Analyst Information Systems Williamson Medical Center This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whic

[MEDITECH-L] Infection Control

We are interested in finding out how other Meditech facilities are handling automation of Infection Control Surveillance. Are you doing something within Meditech or utilizing a 3rd party vendor? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Wendy Wendy A. Schultze RN, BSN Clinical Applica

[MEDITECH-L] Per Diem nurses and PCS documentation

I have been asked if there is a way to get Per diem nurses in for documentation. I know I can create a generic mnemonic, enter the nurse of the day into the last and first name in the universe and it will go to PCS, MIS. What are other sites doing, how did you set it up, how easy is it to find sta

[MEDITECH-L] LTC/ACUTE PHA question CS

Hi, I have a question for Integrated ACUTE/LTC sites with Pharmacy Do you use your Meditech Hospital/Acute Pharmacy System to provide medications to their Nursing Home Residents who are on the Meditech LTC system? If so, how is the billing done particularly for non-skilled/Part B Residents? Or d

[MEDITECH-L] BBK TISSUE BANK

Hello, Our Blood Bank department is asking if there is anyone who is using the MEDITECH Blood Bank module for their tissue bank? Since tissue is tracked similar to blood products it would seem to be possible but we would be interested in hearing how sites have set this up. Any help would be appre

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

It actually has to do with the internal date exceeding the allowed space, meditech has a DTS that we just loaded: Meditech's response: This issue was caused by theway PCI stores data using an internal date format. Up until 7/18/07, theinternal format was 4 digits for the day and 4 digits for th

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI Users

Meditech has just moved the DTS PCI 6343 to our TEST database and at first glance it looks like the query groups are sorting appropriately in reverse chronological order. However, I need to complete the testing notes to make sure. JEAN ARRIAGA, RN CLINICAL SYSTEMS ANALYST CHINO VALLEY MEDICA

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Fall Risk assessments

Since the topic of Fall Risk has come up, I have another somewhat related question. Does anyone have either a screen or canned text for documenting a fall when it happens? I am suppose to mock up a screen and/or canned text for consideration of our documentation committee and I have to admit, I am

Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTENTION MAGIC PCI and RAD Users

FYI: PCI Query Groups AND RAD Statistics are both being affected by the way their internal date format is set up. No RAD statistics are available for 07/18/07. A task was opened in PCI by Meditech for our site today regarding this issue, which states the following: This task is being open

Re: [MEDITECH-L] GL Period Info

Nice. Thanks Ken. FYI ya'll might wanna comment (;) or remove the call to the debugger. :) Thank you, Mitch Lawrence Lead Applications Analyst - Advanced Report Writer General Financials Support CHRISTUS Information Management (tm): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send a "thank you" to someone! -Origin