RE: [MEDITECH-L] How do I repair inactive primary NDCs in the Drug Dict

2007-05-14 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Frankie. You can go to http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/database/default.htm and all the NDC numbers are there. You can look them up or there are files you can download and use in a database. HTH. Jeff Thompson Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy 5.6 Charge problem

2007-05-30 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Just a followup. We are MAGIC 5.61 PP 4 and we are not having these issues. I tried several scenarios and all seemed to work correctly. Jeff Thompson, RPH Newman Regional Health Emporia, Kansas -Original Message- From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Please Post: PHA 5.61 Dose Instructions, How to show multiple lines on

2007-06-08 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Richard. I've attached an NPR label that we use for our UD labels. It has 4 lines for dose comments. Hope this helps. Works in MAGIC 5.61. Jeff Thompson,RPh Newman Regional Health Emporia, Kansas 66801 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Auto PakII and Fluid Dose

2007-06-09 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Yes, we use the AutoPak product. Call me or email with specific questions. It is heat based and does a good job. Only a few things can't go through it because of size or "softness". HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA MAGIC 5.6.1 PENDING orders functionality

2007-06-11 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Charlie and all, The PENDING function shows up when using Order Sets. (When I noticed it.) It was added into PHA for POM. Don't see a lot of use since so hard to change status back to regular. Here is a quick summary: Pending Orders Function Meditech has created an enhancement to allow Orders to

RE: [MEDITECH-L] small Datamax printers

2007-06-16 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We are using the E4203. I think it uses the same as the big ones. Jeff Thompson Newman Regional Health Emporia, Kansas -Original Message- From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert White Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 12:36 PM To: meditech-l@mtusers.com Subje

RE: [MEDITECH-L] FSV provided allergies~ 5.5 and 5.6

2007-06-16 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Alison. We are using them here. You are welcome to call if you have questions. Look on the MUSE website under the International MUSE 2007 papers and you will find my presentation, "Are you Allergic to the New Allergy Model" from there. Talks all about it. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharma

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

2007-06-19 Thread Thompson, Jeff
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] Medispan VS another vendor

2007-07-04 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Carla, We made the conversion to FDB from Medispan last summer and we have no problems. Was a good move for us. We did it so we could use the new MAGIC allergy model. Call if you have questions. Jeff Thompson, RPh Project Manager/Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Direct Phone:

Re: [MEDITECH-L] No Strength on some FDB Drugs!

2007-07-05 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We are MAGIC 5.6 PP4 with FirstDataBank. If I understand your question correctly, you might be talking about Hyzaar 100/25 which FDB would strength as each for dose checking, etc. In these situations I edit the drug ID and that shows everywhere that I have found. It seems to work well for us. I

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Discharge/Transfer Medication Reconciliation

2007-07-09 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Here is what we came up with for our Discharge portion. It pulls in the current hospital meds, the home meds (from a NUR CDS) and then gives a section for doc to write the new scripts and give to patient for their pharmacy. In our state, it is valid for controlled medications. We are MAGIC 5.6 PP

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy report needed for charges. - MAGIC 5.6 PP4

2007-07-09 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Try this. I think it is set for any cumulative charges for 1 item during an admit over $1000. We use this to try and catch billing errors. Hope this helps. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -Original Message- From: [

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Vertical Barcodes printed on Thermal Printer

2007-07-09 Thread Thompson, Jeff
You don't say if you are MAGIC or C/S. Here is a MAGIC label that has a vertical barcode on it. We use it with a Datamax E4208. We are MAGIC 5.6 PP4. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 _

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech 5.61 PHA

2007-07-11 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Mike. Make sure you do a search on the L. There is a lot of info there on 5.6. I'll start the list and others can jump in. One of the most useful things I found was on the Meditech website there is a PHA 5.6 Training manual (not bad, I might add) that talks about everything. Something we

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Report writer access

2007-07-17 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Yes, I am in the Pharmacy but work closely with IS. 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 Ron Mundt Sent: Monday, July

Re: [MEDITECH-L] FSV

2007-07-18 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We converted to FirstDataBank last summer and have been very happy. We converted so we could use the 1B allergy model in MAGIC. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 From: [EM

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Charges

2007-07-18 Thread Thompson, Jeff
As far as I'm aware, there is no reference. We have a Charge Type set up called Medicare that basically charges $0.00 on the bill. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 From

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Tablet splitting

2007-07-24 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Pharmacy splits the tablets for Nursing. We enter a new drug entry with a doseform like "HALFTAB". The NDC is used of the original drug with an "H" on the end. This works well for us. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 --

Re: [MEDITECH-L] 5.61 Update

2007-07-24 Thread Thompson, Jeff
I just wanted to remind everyone why this is being done. This "enhancement" will allow Nursing to pick any drug from the Home Medication function in EDM to allow for interaction/allergy checking on the inpatient side. Yes, this may not be the best but at least we have to be amazed that Meditech t

Re: [MEDITECH-L] Barcode Scanners

2007-08-01 Thread Thompson, Jeff
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] Nursing staff entering Coded Allergies

2007-08-01 Thread Thompson, Jeff
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

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

2007-08-01 Thread Thompson, Jeff
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] compounded meds

2007-08-01 Thread Thompson, Jeff
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] canned text labels MAGIC 5.61 PP4

2007-08-01 Thread Thompson, Jeff
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

Re: [MEDITECH-L] NPR help - Magic 5.6 - fragments & macros

2007-08-04 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Bill. I've attached a report (main report is ADM.PAT) and LAB frag that pulls the data you want. Just do a LC for the abnormal SCr or est CLCr. HTH. Jeff Thompson, RPh Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [MEDITECH-L] 2D Scanners

2007-08-10 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Frankie, There are several. Major one is Pfizer and you will see others. We found it worth the cost to get 2D because we could have our own unit-dosing machine use the Datamatrix format which is a tiny barcode and give us more room to label. Jeff Thompson Newman Regional Health Emporia, Kansas

RE: [MEDITECH-L] BF View Question

2006-11-03 Thread Thompson, Jeff
I would try ((A1:7D/B1:5D)+(0-1))*100 .     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 Rhodes-Bridges,BarbaraSent: Monday, October 30, 2006 11:10 AMTo: MEDIT

RE: [MEDITECH-L] BMV and Omnicell

2006-11-04 Thread Thompson, Jeff
There is no reason that their HL7 engine that makes the messages for transmission back to Meditech can't block the duplicate ones generated. Their competitor's product won't do this. Talk to a different interface engineer if they give you grief. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics N

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Formulary in Meditech

2006-11-05 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We are MAGIC 5.2.3.  I just wrote a NPR to write out a comma-delimited file that I link from MS Access to manipulate the data.  It works fine.  I have heard there are some 3rd-party OBDC (MS Access can directly link to OBDC) drivers that link to Meditech but I haven't explored them.    

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Access EForms/NCR copy question

2006-11-09 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We are using Access eForms to print all forms, which includes the patient data. These are printed at the time they are needed. That way we have no more embossers and no more NCRs. The order sheets are then scanned to Pharmacy. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Em

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Acudose STAT/NOW orders showing for only a short time??

2006-11-13 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Title: Acudose STAT/NOW orders showing for only a short time?? We solved this by setting up a SIG of ONE and a order type of ONE.  The Pyxis interface was then altered so when it saw this combination come in the message it set the DC date 2 hours from start time and set the ONE DOSE flag. 

RE: [MEDITECH-L] FDB or MediSpan?

2006-11-18 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We are MAGIC 5.5.3. We just moved from Medispan to FirstDataBank. We moved because FirstData was the only vendor that allowed us to move to the 1B allergy checking. One difference that we have discovered is that FirstDataBank doesn't included medications that have been discontinued greater than 2

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Hold orders

2006-11-28 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We currently Deactivate (DA) the order and then Reactivate (RA) when the doc writes to do so. This allows us to still show the meds on our medications transfer form as held and give them a chance to order it when the patient moves around. We also are Pyxis Profile and it shows as held there, also

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Hold orders

2006-12-03 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Not quite accurate. Our Pyxis 3000 handles the DA (deactivated) and RA (reactivated) correctly. The drug shows on the patient profile at the station but shows on on hold and unavailable to take out. Jeff Thompson Newman Regional Emporia, KS -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MT

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHARMACY- ORDER ENTRY WITH CARTLESS FILL

2006-12-05 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Yes, all orders are entered in Meditech by pharmacists. No, there is not another check by another pharmacist. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHARMACY- ORDER ENTRY WITH CARTLESS FILL

2006-12-12 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Aimee, it also happens to us sporadically. We have not been able to figure it out, either. Anyone have ideas? We are MAGIC 5.5.2. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 From: meditech

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Magic 5.5 - Print a field vertically

2006-12-12 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We are MAGIC 5.5.2. Here's how I did it on IV labels: This is in the field def: This is in the following line Line format: I think there is a KB article describing this. Might search the site. I've also attached the whole label NPR in case I've forgotten something. Jeff Thom

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Positive patient ID and BMV

2006-12-15 Thread Thompson, Jeff
When I asked this question at Meditech BMV training, they said Meditech can't do it but 3rd party vendors could do this. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [mailto:

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Morning Dose Different than Evening Dose

2006-12-24 Thread Thompson, Jeff
I REALLY think this should be 2 different orders. We do so and then link them so they are next to each other on the MAR. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMA

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Subscripting Help

2006-12-24 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Here is a report that I use as a header that has that information on it. I use it out of ADM.PAT and PHA.PAT. I didn't send the LAB frag since you didn't mention those values. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -O

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Refill List

2006-12-27 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Yes, this has been a problem for us and we haven't been able to find the common thread causing it. Let me know if you hear something. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 From: medit

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Using Microsoft Access to pull demographic data fromMEDITECH (ADM/ABS)

2007-01-08 Thread Thompson, Jeff
2 options that I've been told about. 1) (which I have done) - write a NPR to dump the data down to a comma delimited file and then link to it from ACCESS 2) iPeople (www.ipeople.com) has software, iPeople Direct, that you can attach to it as an OBDC database and directly query agains

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Refill List

2007-01-10 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 From: Nielacny, Aimee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 7:29 AM To: Pivonka, Michelle; Thompson, Jeff; Stephanie Roberts; meditec

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Formulary NPR Report

2007-01-20 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Well, Robert, here is an NPR that pulls the fields I need (so far) to do some of the comparisons you are talking about. It makes a comma-delimited file that I then link to from MS Acess and run stuff against. I really would suggest you link so you don't have to import the data every time you downl

RE: [MEDITECH-L] DATAMAX E-4204 Magic V5.4 SR3

2007-01-21 Thread Thompson, Jeff
I've attached out IV piggyback label. It has a vertical barcode that can go whereever I want it by changing the parameters in the VPRINT. HTH. We are Magic 5.5.2. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 _

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Magic PHA rule to check medical record in PHA forvaccine dispensed

2007-01-26 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Here is the rule I use to show that last admined. We are MAGIC 5.5.2. It pulls from the Nursing query. Set up to pop-up on picking the med in RX. HTH. MNEMONICACT DESCRIPTIONPRINT PRINT STOCK DATA FLDS POM? EVALUATE PCI

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA Magic Transfer med/ post op review report

2007-01-26 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Here is our version of this. We are MAGIC 5.5.2. We use it on transfers to and from levels of care. Seems to work well. Really customized for how our facility works. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -Original M

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Medication Reconciliation

2007-01-26 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Ave census of 65 and Nursing takes the initial home meds then Pharmacy does the rest. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 > _ > From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pyxis Interface Security Module

2007-01-29 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Seamless. No problems. Just make sure that all your "custom" interface message manipulations are recoded in the new PIE. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 From: meditech-l@MTUs

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA Magic Transfer med/ post op review report

2007-02-03 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We are MAGIC 5.5.2. Here is a report that does what you want and maybe a little more. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Silve

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA Charges

2007-02-03 Thread Thompson, Jeff
The only way I've found that is easiest for is I just keep a patient open in another screen and enter the drug on the patient and see what the charge is without saving. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -Original Mess

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Switching Formulary Service Vendors

2007-02-12 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We did the switch late last summer. Had very few issues. Went well and are very happy with the switch. The only "issue" was the difference in route dictionary mnemonics such as, Medispan inhalation = "IN" and FirstDataBank inhalation = "IH". Our main reason for wanting to switch was so we could

[MEDITECH-L] MAGIC Taper orders

2007-02-13 Thread Thompson, Jeff
I'll looking at Taper orders and realized that the correct dose was not printing correctly. Only the "first" dose was correct and that printed over the life of the order, not the "tapered" dose. This is unacceptable since it will lead to dosing errors. Here is my reponse from Meditech about it:

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA: Desiging Drug Database

2007-02-21 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We are MAGIC 5.5.2. We use 1 dictionary since we use perpetual inventory and using the NONFORM dictionary does not support that. Jeff Thompson Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adnan Hamid Sent

RE: [MEDITECH-L] pharmacy hearder with lab results

2007-03-03 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Here is a header that I use in PHA that pulls in some of what you want and the LAB frag that pulls it. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [mailt

RE: FW: [MEDITECH-L] Iatric Visual Flow Sheet

2007-03-04 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We use VFS ver 2.2.99 and the speed is very nice. I have a 23-tab view and all tabs load in 15 seconds. However, the first tab is available in 3 seconds and the rest fill in. This is very acceptable for the return on value. BTW, it makes a difference if you are in TEST and haven't run a PHA

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHARMACY VERIFICATION

2007-03-14 Thread Thompson, Jeff
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

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

2007-03-16 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Susan. Go and look at KB article 16856 under the RW application stuff on meditech.com. I used those codes and it worked for me. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -Original Message- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com

[MEDITECH-L] Alphas in barcodes - MAGIC 5.5.2 PHA

2007-03-16 Thread Thompson, Jeff
I'm needing to put the character "V" in a barcode. MAGIC has the BAR.CODE and CODE.128 formats. According to some documentation on 128 I should be able to do this but it will not be as compressed. I can only get the BAR.CODE to print the V on my labels. Any ideas? Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. P

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Allergy Documentation

2007-03-21 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Patti. Move to the new 1B allergy model. We MAGIC 5.5.2 (testing 5.6.1). This allows everyone to share the same coded allergy database and moves it out of PHA to the MIS dictionaries. Works well. We are with FirstDatabank which does make a difference on availability. Feel free to call if

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Scanners, PDA's for e-MAR, etc

2007-03-21 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Charlie. Check out the Symbol MC70s. I think they will do everything you ask for if configured correctly. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 From: meditech-l@mtusers.com [ma

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Allergy Alert

2007-03-26 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Move to the new MAGIC 1B allergy model. There is no more class/generic/drug allergies. There is one dictionary in MIS that would have caught it. We moved to it last fall and it is so much easier to use. Another bonus is that Nursing and PHA and ER can share the same database. Call if you have q

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy 340B Purchasing/Billing

2007-03-26 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Here is a report that takes stuff from where you want. It calculates total acetaminophen by patient for a certain time span. HTH. We are MAGIC 5.5.2. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 Fr

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy Revenue

2007-03-27 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Assuming that you are accurately changing the AWP as they come on the invoice, there have been SIGNIFICANT reductions in AWP over the last 5 years. Some companies have gotten in trouble for "inflating" the AWP so they are getting more realistic. If you have FirstDataBank, make sure you are using

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA Review Activity Exists ???

2007-03-27 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Yes, it shows up frequently. Do a search of the L and you will find a thread from several months back. These are configured in the Custom-defined Parameters with several flags that will limit this somewhat. You need to add the REV function to the pharmacist ACCESS so the can REView these and cle

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA NDC codes on claims- Magic

2007-03-28 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Julie. We did this last January on MAGIC 5.5.2. PHA must build a TXN rule. Then on the BAR side, they must do something to pull it in as we present it to them. There is a knowledgebase article (#18890) on the PHA side that explains it. A query in MIS also needs to be set up. Jeff Thompso

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Nurses Coding Allergies - what about FOOD and OTHER

2007-04-03 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Janice. We are MAGIC 5.5.2. When we moved to the 1B allergy model for MAGIC, all the environmental and food allergies were loaded in from FirstData into the MIS Allergen dictionary and available for use in the modules. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Fw: Allergens

2007-04-03 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Charlie. Respectfully, I'm going to disagree. I think the lookup is the Brand name of the drug. This makes it easier for non-pharmacy users to be more exact. I've noticed that if the strength is included in the Brand name it seems to be there. I do realize that not having DCN 100 doesn't fit

RE: [MEDITECH-L] RT Staff and access to Pyxis/Omnicell Cabinets

2007-04-12 Thread Thompson, Jeff
They have access to override. We have a separate override group just for them. House moms also can override the meds. We monitor to make sure only in emergent situations. Jeff Thompson,RPh Newman Regional Health Emporia,KS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Re: Pharmacy Perpetual Inventory

2007-04-13 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We use it here. PHA to MM.PHA. These is little maintenance in Meditech on the PHA side once you get it going. However there is considerable time spent on tracking low cost items and reconciling. You can not use NONFORMULARY dictionary in PHA because it does not support perpetual. Your IV labels

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Computer Generated MAR - Nurses please help

2007-04-13 Thread Thompson, Jeff
See in line below. 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 Dale, Diane Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 3:21 PM To: [EMAIL PR

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Drug Information

2007-04-13 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hello. We use Micromedex. It is available from any computer having internet access. In my opinion, it has everything you would want to know about the drug but is very hard to find the details. The structure is not user friendly nor intuitive. I would look hard at the alternatives. Jeff Thom

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Allergy Management in 5.6 and formulary service vendors

2007-04-26 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Tara. Very easy switch and didn't take long at all. Some lessons learned here. Meditech can run a utility to "purge" the Medispan data. However, they are breaking the ties to things. The allergies still reside on all the drugs just don't do anything because they are purged in other places.

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pyxis / ADT / patient / PHA problem question

2007-04-30 Thread Thompson, Jeff
Hi, Tom. Have your Pyxis engineer block the admission update messages in their Pyxis interface. (A08's) Ours is set to block all A08's with an Admit date plus 72 hours less then current time. HTH. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340

RE: [SPAM] [MEDITECH-L] C/S 5.5.2 PHA Unverified Orders

2007-05-02 Thread Thompson, Jeff
I agree with Cindy. I think a "new" status showing DCDU would be useful. The order disappearing with a cancel would seem to be a lot more work. Autoverifying of the order seems just plain dangerous. Just my 2 cents. Jeff Thompson Newman Regional Health -Original Message- From: meditec

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Any Magic 5.61 using MM.PHA??

2007-05-08 Thread Thompson, Jeff
We are. Currently MAGIC 5.5.2 going to 5.61 in June. You are welcome to call or email your questions and I'll try to help. You won't find many that do this. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 -Original Message- From:

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Print 3 copies of a NPR report

2006-05-02 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Try this: AL BEFORE.PRINT D(27)_"&l3X"^! Changing the 2 to a 3 will change the number of copies. The rest is PCL code which is th

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA: Integrate a calculated field into a report

2006-05-15 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Jiten, Here is a report that has that in there plus a whole bunch more. We use this to screen our Pharmacy patients daily. Note

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA: Integrate a calculated field into a report

2006-05-16 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Sorry, list. I forgot to include the frags for the report so I am resending the report and frags. These are Magic 5.5SR3. Worked

RE: [MEDITECH-L] FW: Magic PHA rule help

2006-05-24 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Here is a rule we use. It is attached in the CDPs to our Outpatient Pharmacy facility. It changes as your expect. Rule Dictionary

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy order rule for less than 2 yrs old.

2006-05-24 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Here is ours: Mnemonic AGELT2YO Last Edited by PHA.JDT Date 05/03/2006-0758 Active? Y

RE: [MEDITECH-L] M 5.5 Sr1 - Formulary policies, generics and allergies

2006-05-31 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == This is one of my biggest "gripes" about MediTech. There are so many screens to hit enter through. I went to a talk and the lectur

RE: [MEDITECH-L] 2D barcodes for BMV

2006-06-01 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == One thing we ran in to here for pills, was that the 2D format used by some of them had to be "turned on" in the scanner. The defaul

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PRINTED MAR

2006-06-01 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We are not a 24-hour Pharmacy. Nursing handwrites the MAR until Pharmacy opens in the morning. Remember that they only need to write

RE: [Meditech-L] BMV Bar Coding Question

2006-06-01 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We are going last of July but we are working on the barcoding now. We use the Accupak software that came with our packager that put

RE: [MEDITECH-L] MAR labels for DC'd meds

2006-06-02 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == In Magic 5.5.2: It would be part of the MAR label format found in the Custom Defined Parameters on page 4 bottom right. I would pu

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Fractional Tablet Dosing in Meditech/Pyxis

2006-06-08 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Bob, We set up a separate drug item in the drug dictionary for 1/2 tabs, etc. We are perpetual inventory so we do have to do a "move

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pyxis and 5.5 SR2

2006-06-12 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We had no problem when we did the same conversion. My suggestion is get with your Pyxis interface engineer. The first place I would

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Scanning Barcodes in PCS/EMAR/BMV

2006-06-12 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Chuck, Do you get the numbers but then the screen just sits there? If so, you need to do a scan of the configuration barcode that t

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Pyxis and 5.5 SR2

2006-06-19 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We had this problem when Nurses were "visiting" the patient back to their floors to be able to document on them. Meditech applied a

[MEDITECH-L] Intellidot for BMV

2006-06-22 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We are currently seriously looking at Intellidot for BMV use. Anyone have any stories they's like to share about it? Email or phon

[MEDITECH-L] BMV RFP

2006-06-22 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Anyone have a detailed BMV Request for Proposal that they are willing to share? Thanks. Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics

RE: [MEDITECH-L] creatinine clearance

2006-06-27 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Here is a header we use on the Patient Profile during order entry. It also has several other things on it that you may find useful.

RE: [MEDITECH-L] ED Meds

2006-06-30 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == We use Pyxis and everything goes through there. The other thing we did that was really helpful was to put a display for the ER trac

[MEDITECH-L] PHA MAGIC profile sort

2006-07-03 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Anyone figured out how to get the drug profile list for a patient on Order Processing in PHA to sort by the additive instead of the

[MEDITECH-L] RE: WIDING NPR BAR CODES

2006-07-12 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == You don't say what printer or software but For Datamax printers and MAGIC, KB article 16856 fixed the problem here. Basically

[MEDITECH-L] PHA MAGIC Carefusion PHA,BMV

2006-08-03 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == If anyone has implemented or looked at Carefusion BMV product with Magic, would you please contact me by phone or email to discuss t

RE: [MEDITECH-L] Setting Up Workload

2006-08-09 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Please post to list. Jeff Thompson Newman Regional Health -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA Allergy Override Comments

2006-08-14 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Here is our list of overrides that have accumulated over 10 years. ALLY Allergy Noted and Assessed - Continue as

RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA TPN Drug Dictionary Build/Order Entry

2006-08-14 Thread Thompson, Jeff
All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments.The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com == Please post to list. (As I personally think all answers should be to make this useful). Jeff Thompson Newman Regional Health -

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