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Charlie I have to disagree, I use the AHFS Codes for other purposes and would like to retain them. I often create a printed or on-line Formulary that sorts bu Drug Class and I also always use the Drug Class as the Category in MM.PHA so that I can create MM reports that match PHA reports by Crug Class Terry Terry Lehmann B.S.P. Consultant Healthtech Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 416.483.5974 ext.38 Fax: 416.221.3002 http://www.healthtech.on.ca This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Downs Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:23 AM To: Richard Lee; [email protected] Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] please post: AHFS Class changes and Meditech5.4(Magic) All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 1:28 PM Subject: [MEDITECH-L] please post: AHFS Class changes and Meditech 5.4(Magic) > All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to > attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com > ====================================== > > 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] > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
