[MEDITECH-L] Attribute Help

Hello to All, Here is the scenario: The therapist did the treatment today and incurred a current total treatment time of 45 min. on the initial session (as seen on the screen below). Initial Documentation: Time In: 0800 Time Out: 0830 Elapsed Time: 30 Time In: 0845 Time Out: 0900 Elapsed Tim

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Canned text note from npr

This sounds like you are compiling a list of accounts in the B/AR compiled reports routines and using this Meditech import tool on that compiled list of accounts to import a selected canned text. Compiled reports '= NPR Thank you, Mitch Lawrence Lead Applications Analyst Technical Support - NPR/A

[MEDITECH-L] CDS Attribute Question

We have created a CDS screen that requires a phone number, and we are attempting to format it like the other phone number fields (###-###-). We have the formatting in place, but we can not seem to make the format stick once you switch to another screen. Does anyone have any ideas? Right now, th

[MEDITECH-L] compounded meds

We are seeing a problem with our compounded meds (GI cocktail for example). If one of the ingredients is in the Pyxis medstation, it automatically defaults to dispense from Pyxis. If the pharmacist does not notice this and change the dispense location to the main pharmacy, Pyxis allows the nurses

[MEDITECH-L] Partial RXM

Hello, We are in the process of implementing Nursing Doc and using the partial RXM. I am looking for anyone who may use it or have information on how it functions. (MAGIC platform) Thanks Martha Kemp Lakeview Community Hospital Paw Paw, MI 49079 269-657-1677 =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*

Re: [MEDITECH-L] eMAR Co-signatures

We are only requiring this with PCA's, Epidurals and Insulin drips. Since we are using BMV with eMAR they do document the co-signature prior to administration but both nurses do have to be present. They don't like it but in order for it to serve the intended purpose.. Thanks, Susan :-)

Re: [MEDITECH-L] communication between pharmacy and nursing

Susan, We are utilizing a module here at Parkview called "Order Verification". This is part of our IntelliDOT BPOC product. If you have any further questions about it I would be happy to share. Thanks, Denise Crepeau, Pharmacy Systems Analyst, Parkview Medical Center, Pueblo, Colorado,

[MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Label Needed: Magic 5.5

Hi all, Does anyone have a user friendly custom pharmacy label that they have included the SIG on that also prints the generic and trade names that they would like to share? Thanks, Sandy DePlonty War Memorial Hospital 500 Osborn Blvd Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 Phone: (906)635-4663 Fax

[MEDITECH-L] EDM Module - Sign Button

Hi All, We have been live with EDM/POM (Magic 5.61) since February 2006 (live on 5.5.). Since that time, we have had a number of problems with the Sign Button not working as it should. The current problem since live with 5.6 is that the docs sign their orders, but the button remains highlighted

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Barcode Scanners

I would try this to try and "isolate" the problem. Take a problem drug. Scan it using your 2D scanner into the Windows Notepad. See if you get the letters/numbers. If so, then enter an order in PHA and where it is asking for the drug (some place you can scan from!), scan the drug in and see if t

Re: [MEDITECH-L] NUR I+O total attribute

Hi Coral, Prior to ORM we used a totaling attribute on our PACU record. These queries are separate from the ones that go to PCI. I forget their rational but they didn't want them included in the "PCI totals". On each query: On the total query: Thanks, Susan :-) ___

[MEDITECH-L] MEDITECH/ORTHO PROVUE INTERFACE

Good day, I am looking for any hospital that has successfully interfaced the Ortho Provue to meditech. Thank you, Terri Vaughan AMC Mayo Health Systems Information Technology 507-434-1062 (Phone) 507-434-1470 (Pager # 11648 ) 507-434-1495 (Fax) =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscrib

[MEDITECH-L] RXM REPORT THAT CAN PULL INTO EDM

Does anyone have one of these? I am trying to create a report so we can see no abbreviations and put it in patient language.currently we are having the nurses document the home meds on RXM and then any meds that they are given in the hospital on a CDS. I would love to have a report in EDM

[MEDITECH-L] STAFF EDUCATION

This topic is a little off the normal questions we get on the L, but I'll ask it anyway. Our facility is looking at a different way to do Staff education and was wondering what other facilities are using. Currently we have several education days a year, where staff spends one day getting all thei

Re: [MEDITECH-L] JCAHO lab inspection...

Please post to list _ From: Freeman, Gale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:28 PM To: Meditech-L; meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: [MEDITECH-L] JCAHO lab inspection... We were just inspected by JCAHO and received a major violation for not having the completio

Re: [MEDITECH-L] JCAHO lab inspection...

Place the last activity date and time onto the picture for the lab specimen header portion of your external reports. See Field Names below. Editing FIELDS - for PICTURE or REGIONS REG A 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7- 8 DL DL SPEC

[MEDITECH-L] IMPRIVATA Single Sign On Appliance

Does anyone have any experience with the Imprivata OneSign appliance using Meditech Magic?? thanks, Bill Bill O'Brien Information Technology Manager Kell West Regional Hospital 5420 Kell Blvd West Wichita Falls, TX 76310 (940) 696-7584 FAX (940) 696-7567 This e-mail, facsimile, or letter an

[MEDITECH-L] Wristbands

For those sites live with BMV and eMAR, what wristbands are you using? We are using Laser Band but are having a few issues. 1. After patients shower once or twice they will not scan, requiring new bands. 2. The baby bands are digging and cutting into the newborns skin 3. The baby b

[MEDITECH-L] Meditech $T RAD and MEDQUIST SPEECHQ Voice Recognition

Hello: We recently installed MEDQUIST SPEECHQ Voice Recognition interfaced to Meditech $T RAD version 5.5sr2. Intermittently, I am experiencing a "lag" in the Orders/Exams flowing from Meditech RAD $T into SpeechQ. Meditech RAD & NMI says "no problem on their end". Medquist says "no problem on

[MEDITECH-L] Job Posting, Project Manager

Dearborn Advisors Project Manager/Team Leaders Meditech Consulting The Position We are a privately owned, leading provider of advisory services in the healthcare industry, specializing in adoption of clinical information systems and we are seeking a Project Manager and Team Leader(s) for a major

[MEDITECH-L] Query into a Lab Result

Hi Dawn, I created calculations to pull the date & time of last dose queries onto the T-test result as a comment for therapeutic drugs. This is what the calculation for Lithium looks like. The queries are OELITHD and OELITHT. ...

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Bedside computer versus COWS

I agree that the combined med cart /COW is not a good idea. We evaluated several different ones and never found anything we liked. We settled on what has become known around here as "skinny COWS". They are Dell laptops with an add on 12 hour extended battery pack mounted to a stable but small fo

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Nursing staff entering Coded Allergies

If you are MAGIC, use the new 1B allergy model. Nurses can then enter coded allergies by calling the RXM routine and every drug is in there and can be looked up by the Trade name. There is also only one allergy (no class,generic, etc.) to pick. It is all NDC number based and works well. We curr

[MEDITECH-L] Database consolidation

Anybody out there have any "lessons learned" to share regarding database consolidation? We currently have separate OE, RAD and NUR databases for our three facilities and are now forced to consolidate them. Meditech of course is working with us but we thought we would ask the "real experts" (smile)

[MEDITECH-L] help with report

BlankI have an NPR report that we use for discharge instructions. It pulls the patient's current meds as well as their home meds and then has some basic discharge instructions. Its been called to my attention that if the patient has a lot of current meds and it takes more than one sheet to pri

[MEDITECH-L] tablet pc with scanner

Are any of you using tablet pc's with a built in bar code scanner or the tablets with an added on scanner? If yes, if you wouldn't mind sending me what your nurses report as pros and cons I would really appreciate it. Thanks! Olivia Taylor, RN, BSN Clinical Systems Analyst Information Syste

[MEDITECH-L] Park Place International + SAN solution

Has anybody used Park Place International? We are looking at upgrading our Meditech hardware to SAN solution with IDR and would like to know who can do this for us? I want it to be a turn-key operation. Harwell L. (Navar) Holmes Jr. Network System Administrator Campbell County Memorial H

[MEDITECH-L] Attribute too long

I am trying to total a suicide risk table. I am getting an attribute too long message. Any thoughts? IFE=IF{[ANS,"NURSUI111"]|0+[ANS,"NURSUI16"]|0+[ANS,"NURSUI14"]|0+ IFE=[ANS,"NURSUI19"]|0+[ANS,"NURSUI21"]|0+[ANS,"NURSUI26"]|0+ IFE=[ANS,"NURSUI31"]|0+[ANS,"NURSUI36"]|0+[ANS,"NURSUI41"]|0+ I

Re: [MEDITECH-L] BIG SCREEN DISPLAYS FOR ED

We are using an NEC LCD4010 40” for our bigboard. No problems so far and we also take advantage of the zoom function to view full screen. Edward Ciesielski RN Clinical Analyst Southcoast Health Systems Office: 508-910-3837 Pager: 508-391-0599 >>> "Debra Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [MEDITECH-L] BIG SCREEN DISPLAYS FOR ED

Could it be the screen resolution? Magic works best at 1024 x 768, but you may find different on this 46" LCD. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Ciesielski Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:58 AM To: Debra Graham; Nancy Kuse;

[MEDITECH-L] Force File Attribute

Does anyone have the attribute that will force the user to file or exit prior to the end of a CDS? Thank you, Greg Rouleau Sr Implementation Specialist 715-340-7685 Cellular 870-586-0413 Home Office [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email

[MEDITECH-L] Job Opportunity, Consultants, Project Managers, Meditech Implementation

Dearborn Advisors Consultant, Meditech Implementation Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Company Privately owned, leading provider of advisory services in the healthcare industry, specializing in adoption of clinical information systems is seeking to add several Consultants with Meditech Expertise. O

[MEDITECH-L] Magic NPR help with ABS.PAT

I am attempting to write a report in ABS.PAT and pulling in all the dxs and any operative procedures/dates. I'm getting the dxs, but unable to get the surgical procedures. Can someone help me with the VAL statement? Renee' Rinehart, HCIS Financial Coordinator Guadalupe Regional Medical Center

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Force File Attribute

Forcing File or Exit There may be times when you would like to offer your users the option to exit or file early in a screen. Or perhaps you want to keep users from documenting a specific intervention based on location or nurse type. In these instances you will need to send either @Z.file or @Z.e

[MEDITECH-L] PACS VENDOR RESEARCH

We are a 67 bed, Meditech Magic 5.61, $T RAD, New York hospital, in the midst of PACS vendor selection. Is there anyone out there our size who is utilizing Meditech Magic and implemented PACS that is willing to share the vendor product name, PACS site administrator or IT Director as a contact,

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute too long

Pat, Your best option is to move to a macro so your space is unlimited. Another point you should look at is doing the exact same thing in an REQ attribute so that the total always gets updated when they file the screen. Also, when you are using this type of attribute that references all those que

Re: [MEDITECH-L] JCAHO lab inspection...

One way to do this is via the LAB.L.SPEC header on page 2 of the LIS Report format dictionary. Meditech KB Article LAB #23428 explains how to modify the .std report fragment to print the most recent verify date/time on the report. * It will show the Collection date, Recv date, and Verified dat

Re: [MEDITECH-L] compounded meds

We had a lot of problems with this with our compounded IV's. If the additive was loaded in Pyxis, it would not print on the refill list, but it would charge the patient as if it did. I finally had to make duplicate drug dictionary entries - one that is an additive that is not loaded in Pyxis and

Re: [MEDITECH-L] EDM and LWBS Patients

We discharge the patients with a depart of LMSE, (Left before Medical Screening Exam). Since the patient was seen by the triage nurse, the patient gets a "triage only" charge. It's a very small charge, but since the patient did receive a service, regardless of how small, they get a charge.

[MEDITECH-L] Computer Use in Outpatient Exam Room

The manager of our outpatient oncology clinics asked me to post the following: Currently, our exam rooms are equipped with desktop PCs. Staff sits at the computer to document or view patient information, but find the set up difficult to maintain face-to-face contact with the patient. This may be

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Partial RXM

Martha, We are going live with a partial RXM install for the medication reconciliation JCAHO requirement. We are Magic 5.5 SR1 upgrading to Magic 5.6 SR1 later this month. Robert B. Scranton RPh Pharmacy Information Specialist Adena Regional Medical Center Chillicothe, OH 43154 (740)779-78

Re: [MEDITECH-L] tablet pc with scanner

Please post. Karon Casey Information Systems Clinical Analyst Granville Health System Oxford, North Carolina _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olivia Taylor/mhhcc.org Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:54 AM To: meditech-l@mtusers.com Subject: [MEDIT

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Label Needed: Magic 5.5

Hi Carla, please see attached example from our site. Thank you, Scott White I.S. - Application Services Manager Saratoga Hospital From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carla Fuller Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:20 AM To: meditech

[MEDITECH-L] Attribute to block default of answer on multi

I received this request from another of our analysts and am hoping someone can help us with this. I have a screen that I would like to have most of the queries default. However, I do not want the multi-line comment fields to default. I can set the default queries in the intervention dicti

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Label Needed: Magic 5.5

Here is ours. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carla Fuller Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:20 AM To: me

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Wristbands

I'm surprised to hear you are having trouble with the LaserBands. We have been using LaserBands combined Adult/Baby bands in L&D ( product # LB2-MFB) for almost two years now and love them. They have the "unique ID #" so we were even able to do away with the additional band we used to use to match

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Magic NPR help with ABS.PAT

Hi Renee, I wrote a report that showed both the diagnoses and the procedures. My report uses: ABS.PAT.oper.procs as the Detail Segment. I had to fragment to show the diagnoses because the segments are siblings. Fields: Procedure Mnemonic: oper.proc Procedure Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@

Re: [MEDITECH-L] IMPRIVATA Single Sign On Appliance

Would be interested to hear the answers to this inquiry... Damian A Shepard Systems Analyst Information Systems Telephone: (802) 447-5165 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill O'Brien Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:07

[MEDITECH-L] B/AR Duplicate Charge report?

Does anyone have a report for B/AR which will identify patients with a duplicate charge? I need to look down to the CPT-4 level, not just the procedure mnemonic. Thanks in advance, Cindy Bodnar-Anderson Senior Programmer/Analyst IS, Regional Health Rapid City SD 57701 ***Note: The informati

[MEDITECH-L] Writing Advanced NPR Reports

Hi Everyone, I noticed a lot of questions on the "L" regarding NPR Reports.  I just wanted to let you know that we hired some Meditech programmers who work part time (at night/weekends) who will write reports for you.  We charge WAY less than consultants and the reports get done in a timely manne

[MEDITECH-L] FW: LIFESCAN GLUCOMETER MONITOR INTERFACE

Not sure if I sent this to the right place. Please post. Thanks. From: Rotman, Alyssa Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:04 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: LIFESCAN GLUCOMETER MONITOR INTERFACE We are just beginning the process of researching whether our Li

[MEDITECH-L] Ortho Provue

(Fax) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mtusers.com/pipermail/meditech-l_mtusers.com/attachments/20070801/e0291e4a/attachment.html Jo-Ann Nelson LIS Coordinator Southcoast Hospitals Group 508-679-7217 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and a

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute too long

Pat, Put this on each of the queries you are trying to total (Change the number for each query) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/TT1 Place this on the total query. Place your total query mnemonic in the space provided. Also add as many /TT's as needed. IFE=IF{/TT1

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute too long

Pat, I would not recommend using this technique. The rules for how the FCL attributes are evaluated make it that there can be situations where the slash variable for a specific query does not have a value. I have used this process in earlier years and found it unreliable in all situations. D

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute Help

Hi Cristina, You could write an IF statement for your DFT. Make the condition evaluate whether today is the same day the last response was filed. If so, then place the current logic in the "THEN" logic. It should look something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"YOURQUERY"[EMAIL PROTECTED] *AA.CC

Re: [MEDITECH-L] compounded meds

A solution we did here was to make 2 order types for each order type we needed. Such as IV (from Pyxis) and IVP (from Pharmacy). We then had the Pyxis interface block all order types ending in P so they wouldn't show up. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia

[MEDITECH-L] Accessing PACS from PCI

Does anyone know if there is a way to link directly to PACS from PCI? Jeannie Borg RegN., ENC(C) Clinical Systems Analyst Information Technology Department Guelph General Hospital 115 Delhi Street, Guelph Ontario, Canada, N1E 4J4 519-837-6440 ext. 2882 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality No

[MEDITECH-L] (no subject)

Hi All, I have not gotten any L messages this week. Is anyone else having this problem? Thanks Tara McNamara, MT (ASCP) Sr Systems Analyst Cape Cod Health Care Tel 508-862-5485 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ This email and any files

[MEDITECH-L] EDM Charge Capture Functionality

Hi all, We are evaluating migration to C/S and later implementation of PCS and EDM. I saw a demo of both but can't seem to remember the specifics of charge capture functionalities. Does EDM capture charges based on documentation of nurses and physicians? Does it offer level charge capturing, etc

[MEDITECH-L] canned text labels MAGIC 5.61 PP4

We replaced our dot-matrix printer with a thermal Datamax E series printer. Since that time we have been unable to figure out the right CPI/LPI to get the canned-text labels clear to the right. We have a huge space on the right side of the label and the label hangs off the left side on some. We

[MEDITECH-L] BMV and Embedded Characters in Patient Wristband

Hello L'ers, I know that this subject has been discussed extensively but I recently heard about a possible solution to the issue of scanning ONLY the patient wristband and it involved using a JJWild product. Has anybody else heard of a possible solution to this ever-growing problem and, if so,

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Attribute Help

Christina, Of course that doesn't address that what you are accessing with that code is the last filed "value" of the query. So, if the query was filed as nil the last time, you would not be pulling nil into your screen, but what ever value was filed last. So, say at 7am the query was filed with

Re: [MEDITECH-L] FW: LIFESCAN GLUCOMETER MONITOR INTERFACE

Has anyone used an HL7 interface to link to the Lifescan? We're Magic, but it shouldn't matter. Paul Goedicke IT Clinical Analyst III Jackson County Memorial Hospital 1200 E.Pecan, Altus, OK 73521 Phone: (580) 477-7485 Fax: (580) 477-7366 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Accessing PACS from PCI

We are using Interface People's Assist product to link to the AMICAS Image Viewer from PCI, as well from other modules in Meditech. In the process of testing, with a 9/5 implementation date, but things are looking great so far! Donna Mae Reade, RN, MCP Clinical Information Systems Analyst

[MEDITECH-L] Meditor crashing when connected thru Citrix

Hi, We are testing Magic ITS version 5.5 and one of the issues we've come across is that when our transcriptionists connect to Meditech through a citrix connection so they can work from home, they are crashing when they arrow into a report in ITS to launch the Meditor. Has anyone seen this p