Michelle, we're a Pyxis hospital, but the problem is the same. If our experience is an indication, MediTech won't do anything to help you beyond the "enter everything as SCH" suggestion. Your best chance at success will have to come from Acudose. Our Pyxis interface engineer changed the Pyxis side of the interface to identify the ONE and STA orders and disregard the lame one minute D/C message from Meditech. Instead, Pyxis gives these orders an 8 hour "active" window. Maybe the Acudose folks can figure out how to do the same... Good luck.
Alan Miller, RPh >>> "Pivonka, Michelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/07/2006 17:14 >>> Dear L: Is anyone else having this problem? We are Magic 5.5 SR1, setting up new Acudose cabinets in profile mode and are having trouble with STAT and NOW orders disappearing from the Acudose cabinet when the DC code comes over. This is Meditech's answer: "If you enter a ONE or STAT order, there isn't access to the stop time to have it be anything beyond 1 minute. You could enter a SCH order put a 1 hour or so stop date/time in there. This would function as a ONE time order in that they would only get one dose (as long as the frequency isn't greater than the stop time window)." Acudose says that if they get the DC code that's it - the drug is DC'd and it comes off the Acudose dispensing machine. This is different than a "stop code" - the lag time applies to that. Does that mean that the pharmacists have to edit every STAT or NOW order and change it from a STAT to a SCH and put the stop time in 2 hours? Has any one else encountered this problem, and if so, how did you over come?? Thanks! Michelle PS - Great to meet so many of the "L-people" at regional MUSE! Michelle Pivonka, RN Systems Analyst Information Services Sinai Health System (773) 257-6020 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sinai.org "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill ====================================== 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
