Jeff
Staring a Wiki to capture information on Pha 5.6 would be great.
We plan to move to 5.6 next year and lessons learned by others would of
great benefit. Plus I think others could use this for reference when having
issue. Would not mind helping to get it started.
Elizabeth Kirksey, MCIS
Samaritan Health Service
Corvallis, Oregon 97321
541-768-4577
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Jeff Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:01 AM To: Grisanti, Michael; [email protected] Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech 5.61 PHA Hi, Mike. Make sure you do a search on the L. There is a lot of info there on 5.6. I'll start the list and others can jump in. One of the most useful things I found was on the Meditech website there is a PHA 5.6 Training manual (not bad, I might add) that talks about everything. Something we all noticed here across all modules is that there is a lot of changes that aren't in the DTSs. 1) There are now PENDING orders. Made for POM and hard for PHA to use. Could be useful but not. 2) The drug dictionary has moved fields from one screen to another. 3) All drugs are now loaded from the Formulary Service Vendor and exist in your drug file. They have a flag of Formulary, Non-Formulary and Retail. Basically Retail are the rest of the items in the drug dictionary you don't use. It is there for EDM. Therefore, no suspense file. 1 undocumented lookup is RTN/ in the drug dictionary that allows you to do lookups by NDC. However, if it is already in your drug dictionary you won't see it on the screen! 4) When you use an order set, you have a PENDING section to enter through if you are not going to use pending orders. 5) There are several DTSs you might make sure to get that apply to ALT-IVs if you use them. 6) Lookups in order entry for drugs are case-insensitive (MT's words). You can have Meditech run a utility that will make Mixed case entries across PHA and then you can look up drugs using any case you want (except in the Drug Dictionary). Works well here now that I have all the DTSs! Enough for now. A thought, maybe this is a good thing to start a 5.61 PHA page in the Wiki and add it all there and everyone can contribute changes that they have found and then we can just refer people there. Hmmm.... Jeff Thompson, R.Ph. Pharmacy Informatics Newman Regional Health Emporia, KS 66801 Direct: 620-340-6150 _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grisanti, Michael Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech 5.61 PHA We are upgrading form 5.4 to 5.61. I am about to begin testing the Pharmacy module and was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their experience. I'm just looking for a brief rundown of pitfalls and problems that you encountered that I should be in tune to. FYI: We are currently using Iatric VFS for our eMAR. Thanks so much... -Mike Michael S Grisanti, RPh Pharmacy Services St Mary's Hospital @ Amsterdam NY 518 841-3834 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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