Hi all, We have come to the plan of either Wed or Thur as these are days that are typical days off for physicians and their practices. We usually shoot for 0900-0915 to allow for the bulk of the fasting lab work patients to be processed, the morning lab draws to be run, the physicians to round and orders to be updated, day surgery patients to be checked in, etc. This also allows pharmacy to get the first cart fill to be run and any orders from the overnight to be processed.
As this has become the "norm", staff are getting used to the process. That is not to say that we don't get the forceful complaints from some physicians that this should be done in the middle of the night (of course the Hospitalists and ED docs will tell you that is the worst time for them as primary physicians are not available to fill in the blanks when the system is not available...) Never a good time but we do the best we can. At least with an update we can plan, it is those unexpected downs that are much worse :-) Have a good weekend. Teri Teri R. Young-Hise, RN,C Clinical Systems Analyst Pen Bay Healthcare Rockport, ME (207) 596-8217 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Bill Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/31/06 11:39AM >>> Abraham Lincoln said it best, "You can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time". In my experience you won't be able to find a time that will please everyone. What we have done is try to find a time (without paying Meditech extra) that has the least impact on our patients. The middle of the night might be better for Diagnostic Imaging but not for Nursing, ED or Lab who are short staffed at night. Good luck with this one, you'll need it! >>> On 10/28/2006 at 8:13 am, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Lucas Nancy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if Randolph Hospital is the only facility that has a > horrible time making everyone happy when to do the updates such as 5.5. > > My understanding is that Meditech does it 9am Mon - Thurs or pay $$$ for > 3 or 5 am Mon - Thur or pay More $$$$$ to have it done Sat/Sun 9am. > 3 or 5am options are not available on Sat/Sun. > > Most everyone is in agreement except for Diagnostic Imaging. They want > it done after 11 pm Saturday and before 8 am Sunday. > > Can others tell me when you do the updates. > > Thanks, > Nancy Lucas ====================================== All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l ====================================== All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
