Meditech is working on a DTS to make the look-up not be case sensitive. However, they feel no rush because they say:
"It is not a J-Co complaincy issue. It was recommendedby ISMP but it was not determined that is was required" As for your thermal, you are correct about the FONT atttibutes not working but SIZE does ONLY in 0.5 increments. So 1.5 or 2 but not 1.2 If you add this to your fields individually it works. Do NOT use the previous method od printer codes in the Regional LC as we used to do before the thermal were officially supported. Terry Terry Lehmann B.S.P. Consultant Healthtech Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 416.659.3002 Phone/Voice Mail:416.483.5974 ext.38 Fax/Home Office: 416.221.3002 http://www.healthtech.on.ca This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Downs Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 5:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Pharmacy labels 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 ***** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ***** This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.COM. To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. For help, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.COM. To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. For help, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
