If someone who has done a recent installation of a FOIA will check, I suspect the National Drug File is included but the a local formulary is not. The National Drug File was accepted as a terminology standard by NHII about a year ago (http://www.aspe.hhs.gov/sp/nhii/Standards.html).
On Saturday 15 January 2005 11:26 pm, T Maynard wrote: > Regarding Kevin's goal of keeping the vista globals filled > with a current formulary at a location synchronized to the > national formulary: > http://www.vapbm.org/PBM/natform.htm > As I recall that site offers the smaller interim updates in > excel format and the larger complete formulary was in access > database format (some other files are DBaseIII). (right now > the site says that the larger file is under Revision, so I > can't confirm that). These common formats seem odd for > national site that supports VA pharmacies who live so much > inside of Vista. Maybe these formats are just for the duty > of public presentation and discussion prior to local > formulary updates. > So my question that perhaps Cameron can answer: > Are these the formats that VA pharmacies actually receive > formulary updates in? > Then is there a utility for importing into globals? > Or is there a separate pipeline for delivering the same > data in a Vista friendly format? > > Rusty > > Cameron Schlehuber wrote: > > The VistA FOIA comes devoid of formulary entries since it was never > > exported with any entries. Each site entered their own formulary two > > decades ago, and then mapped their entries to the National Drug File (a > > massive set of reference tables the VA keeps up to date). I understand > > the Hui folks have done the most to create utilities to assist in > > populating and knitting the files together for pharmacy, and will be > > providing some of that work to help the VistA-Office EHR to have > > something pre-populated. > > > > What you describe for the average clinic (that doesn't have its own > > pharmacy) is what will need to be in place in VistA-Office EHR. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin > > Toppenberg > > Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 4:48 PM > > To: Hardhats Sourceforge > > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Pharmacy overview please. > > > > Hey all, > > > > Here is what we would like to do about pharmacy. > > There is a great deal of documentation about pharmacy > > in the VA Doc library, but I need to know where to > > focus in. I need to know if these tasks are possible, > > and how to config. > > > > 1. Add patient's drug list into chart in CPRS > > 2. Write new prescriptions in CPRS, and have script > > get printed out for patient to take to pharmacy > > 3. Refill scripts by choosing a previously entered > > drug and choosing number of refills etc. > > 4. Ideally have some screening for allergies and drug > > interactions. > > > > I have cooresponded with a pharmacist that was selling > > a service of keeping a drug file up to date. Is this > > required or does the FOIA vista have all the drugs > > already entered into the file? > > > > Much of the documentation seems to be regarding > > supporting an actual pharmacy, and for inpatient > > pharmacy issues. I will want to skip over those > > features. > > > > So any pointers or suggestions as to which documents > > to read first? > > > > Thanks > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > All your favorites on one personal page - Try My Yahoo! > > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. 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