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Cindy - Once Meditech uses Medispan's allegens like they are using FDB's, you can use your own generics. I assume that you want to use Medispan's generic names to get the correct AHFS class associated with it, but the only thing that the AHFS classes will be used for is duplicate checking since allergy checking will all be based on NDC's. I'm hoping that Meditech also uses the formulary service for duplicate checking which FDB (and probably Medispan) has. If things like PCI, etc used the drug ID, yes, we wouldn't need all of the generic names that we created. The same with drug look-ups by generic - you can't tell which percentage of say Lidocaine you are looking at unless you have created your own generic name with the percentage incorporated. Charlie Charles R. Downs Pharm.D. Washington County Hospital 251 E. Antietam Street Hagerstown, MD, 21740 301-790-8904 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:34 PM Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Medispan Formulary information needed > All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to > attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com > ====================================== > > > Hi - this is a tough request but I thought I'd try it anyway. Ten years ago when we got Meditech, we created a lot of our own generics and generic > mnemonics. > Over the years, with updates that added the DRUG ID line in the drug dictionary, I have been eliminating them and replacing them with ones from Medispan. > I thought I could be smart and when we had an old 5.4 version removed, I had all the generics in the dictionary > overwirtten and printed a report thinking that the Medispan data would overwrite out own data. But to my dismay I had things like - clindamycin vaginal > cream entered into all the clindamycin iv drugs. The problem is that there were some generics created utilizing the mnemonics from the original Medispan > download (the mnemonics were used but the drug attached is not what was originally attached). > I am looking for a site that uses Medispan that has not too badly corrupted the original downloaded generic drug dictionary. This would probably be > a facility > that got Medispan for its database in the last year or two - although there may be some who haven't tweaked it as badly as we have. > I am looking for a list of the Original mnemonics with the original generic names that would have been loaded into the generic dictionary. > If you are one of those sites, I would be eternally grateful if I could possibly have a list of the mnemonics and names from your generic dictionary > (both active and non-active). I have a simple NPR report you can run to get them all out, if necessary. I have gone to both Medispan and Meditech > and have been unable to make any headway. The generic mnemonic is apparently not created by Medispan - so they say, and there is no > field or NPR field pointing to that field in PHA.FSV, so I tend to think that that is probably true, so how theygot there - I do not know. > Thanks!!!!!!! > > > This e-mail message, including its attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. Any > unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution > is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. > > _______________________________________________ > meditech-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l > > ***** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ***** This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
