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Richard - I've spoken to Meditech about this before and they were supposed
to add extra spaces to this field, but it didn't happen for 5.5. I believe
that the bigger issue here is why does Meditech use AHFS codes at all? With
the new allergens dictionary (if they ever get it working correctly), all we
need the AHFS codes for is for duplicates, and we all know that it doesn't
work very well in that respect. All of the formulary vendors have their own
duplicate checking software which could be used if Meditech would program
for it. However, according to the folks at FirstDataBank, Meditech refuses
to do this. I believe it is time that we all put pressure on Meditech to get
rid of the AHFS codes and use the formulary services for both allergy and
duplicate checking - that way there is no maintainence for us.
Charlie
Charles Downs Pharm.D.
Washington County Hospital
Inpatient Pharmacy
251 E. Antietam Street
Hagerstown, MD, 21740
301-790-8904
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Subject: [MEDITECH-L] please post: AHFS Class changes and Meditech
5.4(Magic)
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Hello, all. I am not sure if I have seen this on the Meditech-L list
before - I apologize if this has been discussed previously:
We are Meditech 5.4 (magic); we also subscribe to Medispan.
Our PHA module Drug Class dictionary has ten character spaces for the
mnemonic, but the AHFS Classifications for 2006 can contain up to eleven
characters [numbers plus colon(:) and
periods(.)]. We have been using the numerical classes as the
mnemonics; how are others handling this, or am I going about it all
wrong?? (I hope not, because we've been using this method since we
started with Meditech in the late 80's)
TIA,
Richard
Richard Lee
Staff Pharmacist/Meditech Specialist
IWK Health Centre
5850-5980 University Avenue
P.O. Box 9700
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3K 6R8
phone: 902-470-8134
fax: 902-470-8850
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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