Below is an e-mail that I sent to Meditech. Does anyone have anything
further to add? Also, is there a way to bold thermal labels on a Datamax I
class printer? My analyst says that because of the way thermal works, you
can't bold on any type of thermal printer. Is this true?
Thanks,
Charlie
I am comparing our pharmacy labels to the recommendations
for labels from the ISMP website and I noticed a couple of things that
Meditech needs to do to meet their recommendations:
1. We need to be able to use lower case letters in both brand and generic
drug names so that tall-man lettering can be used on labels, MARs,
reports, etc.. Yes, one can use lower case letters, but then you can't do
a look-up because of Meditech's reliance on using upper case letters.
2. Certain parts of labels (patient name, generic drug name, and specific
dose) are recommended to be bolded. With thermal labels, you can't bold
anything, you can only make the font larger, and this is an all or nothing
thing for each line. For instance our label has the patient name and the
medical record number on the same line. There is no way to have the name
bolded and the MR number not bolded. However, we need to use thermal
printers for barcoding. Are there label printers out there that can bold
specific fields on a line and also print readable barcodes?
Please check the site http://www.ismp.org/Tools/guidelines/default.asp
where you can see their recommendations. Have you seen these
recommendations? Is Meditech addressing this?
Also, I would recommend that someone from Meditech keep an eye on the ISMP
website so that Meditech can be at the forefront in adopting any ISMP
recommendations as soon as they are published.
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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