I've seen of late articles on using RFID to identify patients when doing
BMV instead of wrist-bands. It looks like there are several advantages to using
RFID over wristbands. Does anyone know if Meditech and scanners that work with
Meditech are able to use this technology for identifying patients? Also, can
you use RFID to identify the patients and with the same scanner, use bar-codes
to identify a medications since it would be impractical to carry around 2
different devices.
All of this arose when our hospital identified a problem with reading
bar-codes on wristbands when scanning with an Accucheck device to identify the
patient. We found that nurses were using work arounds and as a result, scanning
the wrong patient into Accucheck, glucose results were being placed on the
wrong patient, and the wrong patient was receiving insulin.
I thought that if the hospital was going to adopt a new way of handling
wristbands, that they should go to RFID if it is feasible at this time and not
just in the experimental stage. Why waste money on an old system only to
replace it with something better in a few years if the newer system is already
available?
Thanks,
Charlie
Charles Downs Pharm.D.
Washington County Hospital
Inpatient Pharmacy
251 E. Antietam Street
Hagerstown, MD, 21740
301-790-8904
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From: Oscar Beninati
To: 'Grisanti, Michael' ; 'Reid, Gloria' ; 'Kim Corrette' ;
[email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 9:45 AM
Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR
Hello Mike and L'ers,
Backing up the eMAR on the DR is a good idea, but does not solve the network
downtime. If the network goes down, you will not be able to reach the eMAR on
the DR. Mprint Server is independent of your network. With eMAR stored on a
local PC in each dept/ward, even if the network is down you can print the eMAR
to a local printer. Network downtime is a more common downtime then MEDITECH
going down.
Please visit our website at www.interbitdata.com and under downloads, you can
install a FREE trial version of Mprint Server. If you have any questions,
please feel free to call me.
Oscar Beninati
Director of Sales
Interbit Data Inc.
10 W. Central St.
Natick, MA 01760
(508) 647-0013 X208
www.interbitdata.com
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grisanti,
Michael
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:33 PM
To: 'Reid, Gloria'; Kim Corrette; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR
We are LIVE housewide with eMARS. We pull eMAR data from DR via a report.
It updates about every 10 minutes. Nursing units have an eMAR downtime report
icon mapped onto their desktops.
In the event of a planned or unplanned downtime they simply click on the icon
and print their downtime eMAR.
Documentation is recorded on this report and then once we are back online
they "catch" up electonically.
We also FTP an NPR report as a back up but it is much slower than DR.
Michael S Grisanti, RPh
Pharmacy Services
St Mary's Hospital @ Amsterdam NY
518 841-3834
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From: Reid, Gloria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:58 PM
To: Kim Corrette; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR
Please post. We're in the process right now of developing our downtime plans
for e-MAR as we plan to go LIVE with it in the ED next month. We plan to use
Automate to script the e-MAR and some other reports to run and download every
30 minutes to an hour. I'd like to know what others are doing. Please post.
Gloria J. Reid
MIS Assistant Director
Johnston Memorial Hospital
Phone (919)938-7758
Pager (919)871-7045
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim
Corrette
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR
Greetings, L-listers,
How have other sites backed up the electronic Medication Administration
Record for printing when there is an unplanned Meditech downtime?
We are Magic 5.5 SR3. Using Meditech's FTP routine, we've been able to
spool the MAR to a PC hard-drive but the report scheduling routine does not
seem to allow hourly or semi-hourly scheduling. How have others resolved the
need for frequent backup?
TIA -
Kim Corrette, RN
Clinical IS Analyst
Bartlett Regional Hospital
Juneau, AK
(907)796-8838
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