Michael Christie wrote:
Dear All,
May I beg your comments?
We are considering moving from Locum to Best Practice.
Apparently the third party database people tell me they can transfer
all the data from Locum to BP, how well I don't know.
One biggish problem is that Locum uses MIMS drug database which we are
happy with, and BP uses APPCo.
So as far as I know the migrating of the Pts drug history and current
medication may mean just a document with a list of medications in the
letters section of BP, not really putting the current medications into
BP that can be straight away prescribed.
Also current allergies which uses MIMS Interact, probably won't work
on the new package as well as that drug database is different.
If we used a package that had MIMS as a database my guess is that the
Current Meds and allergies would come straight across to the new package.
What comments do my colleagues have re the above?
Rgds
Michael Christie
Michael,
MD used to use AppCo. They changed to Mims and I don't recall it being a
major issue.
I moved from MD2 to BP (ie MIMS to AppCo) and my patient medications all
came across in a manner that enabled them to be prescribed straight away.
Allergies in BP have better descriptors and checking than what was
possible in MD2 (ie allergies can be entered as a "drug class" or as an
"ingredient", "product", "non drug" or "other") I have not looked at
Locum but assume it likely that this treatment of allergies would be
different to what is in BP. I think if you were to change from Locum to
BP, you would be in a position that you would have to check with each
patient what their allergies were before prescribing. Arguably that is
the way it is meant to be anyway. I certainly prefer the way BP
documents and handles allergies compared to what MD2 did, but cannot
offer any insight into how it would stack up against Locum
HTH
Gary
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