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Terry - I guess I wasn't clear enough but I am saying that we shouldn't be
depending on the AHFS codes for allergy or duplicate checking since the
formulary service vendors already have products that use more intelligent
algorithms than does Meditech with the AHFS codes. Yes, we too use them in
our on-line formulary.
Charlie
Charles Downs Pharm.D.
Washington County Hospital
Inpatient Pharmacy
251 E. Antietam Street
Hagerstown, MD, 21740
301-790-8904
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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.
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Healthtech Inc.
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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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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
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