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We went live w/ eMAR, BMV, and Status Board in December in our Acute care areas and medication barcoding about 3 months prior. We've required dedicated RPh participation for the past year at about 10 to 20 hours a week (average 15). Our deployment team consists of nurse managers, clinical analyst, nurse analyst, and an RPh. The RPh involvement is integral to the success of deployment and ongoing maintenance and support. The RPh provides the necessary expertise for drug dictionary maintenance, extensive testing of orders process and impact on eMAR, quality control over barcoding process, participates in analysis of billing issues as it relates to the eMAR processes, participates in med error analysis as it relates to eMAR, ongoing training and standardization of PHA processes, etc. etc. I don't think size of hospital has as much to do with the need for RPh time as does the complexity of operational areas and the extent of system integration. Our need for RPh time does not appear to be diminishing soon as our next goal is to deploy eMAR in Outpatient areas as well which we anticipate will raise new challenges for the deployment team including the need for RPh time. I agree in general with Kevin's comment (below) that eMAR is all about Nursing, while BMV is all about Pharmacy, but add that eMAR integrates Nursing processes with Pharmacy processes greater than before and therefore pharmacy processes are constantly called into question for making the nurse eMAR processes as functional as they possibly can be. Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:58 AM To: 'TOOMEY, CHERYL'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] EMAR/BMV All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== Hi Cheryl- You will find that the Pharmacist input is directly related to the "state of your PHA Drug Dictionary". I have spent any where from 8-24 weeks alone on the PHA dictionaries for eMAR - then there's BMV. The entire pharmacy needs to be "scanned and linked" in the drug dictionary, and then include the workflow changes in the drug repackaging process. Remember, with regards to the dictionary build - eMAR is all about Nursing, while BMV is all about Pharmacy. Best of luck - Kevin. Kevin McConnell, PharmD. Clinical Consultant (713)480-6810 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.RPhInformatics.com <http://www.rphinformatics.com/> ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TOOMEY, CHERYL Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] EMAR/BMV We are live with PHA and will be with NUR by end of year. Want to complete EMAR/BMV next year. How much time of a pharmacist is needed for the build? Cheryl Toomey MHA, RN BC Clinical Informatics Specialist Milford Regional Medical Center Milford, MA 01757 vm (508) 422-2449 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
