Alan, I complained about the 'not on the market anymore' drugs when we first did our MDX load for RXM. Turns out that the parameter *Inact Drug Years uses this flag in MDX. So for example if you don't want drugs that have been off the market for 2 years, set this to '2'. Be careful though - if meds were ordered using that 'drug' the physician has to d/c the old order and write a new one, it can't be renewed.
Marge Usher,RN Clinical Systems Manager The New York Eye & Ear Infirmary 310 E 14th Street New York, NY 10003 212-979-4134 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Miller Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 2:59 PM To: [email protected]; Rae Frazer; Scott A White; Stephen MIS Costa Cc: Mark Pidgeon; Robin Ashline Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] 5.61 Update Scott, I know what you mean. I'm testing 5.61 now. I did a PHA FSV update (MDX) and now have about 200,000 drugs in the drug dictionary instead of the approx 2,000 I was expecting. The extra ones aren't really visible in PHA, there is evidently a new set of flags that has them termed "retail" or something like that. I know they're there, though, since all my NPR PHA.DRUG reports are ridiculously slow to run and will probably have to be rewritten to filter out the garbage. There is no suspense file, and I don't know yet how to get new drugs from the FSV listings into the PHA drug dictionary (or at least the part of it I want them in.) I have no idea what RXM looks like, I'm afraid to go there. It was really trashy before and we were in the process of scripting out a bunch of the junk from the LIVE files before we even thought of going live with RXM. I'm REALLY looking forward to our 5.61 go-live in 2 weeks... The real shame is I know how to read the MDX files directly, and a huge number of these drugs are not even actively manufactured anymore and will NEVER be used in PHA or RXM or anywhere. Yet even with "inactive" flags and dates and the like, Meditech dutifully dumps all this old smelly garbage into the dictionary. What a mess, and the documentation is typical MT fare. I applaud MT for trying to streamline the FSV process, but from what I'm seeing currently, "the cure is FAR worse than the disease". Eventually we'll beat it into submission, we always seem to be able to, in spite of the poor tools we have to work with. Thanks for opening the door a little and giving me the chance to vent. Alan Miller, RPh Pharmacist Patient Care Information Systems Catawba Valley Medical Center 810 Fairgrove Church Road Hickory, NC 28602 >>> "White, Scott A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/23/2007 12:05 >>> Hello, We were informed that the RXM load was a completely seperate set of tables and would not effect the existing Pharmacy formulary. Please tell me I'm nothing short of confused by this post because we are planning to load Medispan as before without importing any new items. The RXM load was to be seperate and we would then import ALL items from the CD. If that is incorrect, we need to develope "plan-B"......scripting. Not a pleasant option when we don't have a dedicated resource for it. Thank you, Scott White I.S. - Application Services Manager Saratoga Hospital ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frazer, Rae Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 10:48 AM To: Stephen MIS Costa; [email protected] Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] 5.61 Update With 5.61, Meditech is using the same formulary service load for PHA and RXM. Meditech didn't supply any documentation for this. We didn't want to mess up our nicely ordered PHA of 3-4,000 meds with the 40,000+ meds that the service load for RXM would supply. We have decided we are going to shut off the load for RXM to not mess up PHA, then we will add the rest of the RXM by hand. If anyone else has a better idea for us, we are open to suggestion. Thanks, Rae Frazer, BS, RN Clinical Applications Specialist Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (802) 748-7502 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen MIS Costa Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 8:43 AM To: [email protected]; Frazer, Rae Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] 5.61 Update Would you please expand on the RXM and PHA limitations in 5.61. We haven't taken delivery of 5.6 yet but we are in the process of implementing RXM and I'd like to get a look into the future. Thanks. Steve Costa Sr. Programmer/Analyst Southcoast Health Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Frazer, Rae" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/20/2007 11:38 AM >>> I would be interested in this information also. We had planned on going live, but the changes to RXM and PHA stopped us in our tracks. We have accepted the limitations and are now ready to reschedule a go live. Thanks, Rae Frazer, BS, RN Clinical Applications Specialist Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (802) 748-7502 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wendy Harrelson Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] 5.61 Update Good Morning, Our hospital will be updating to 5.61 Magic in September. Are there any hospitals willing to share your pros\cons with us? We would greatly appreciate any info. Thanks in advance, Wendy Harrelson Loris Healthcare System Financial Administrative Systems Analyst Phone: 843.716.7268 Fax: 843.756.6967 Web Site: www.lorishealth.org <http://www.lorishealth.org/> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The information contained herein is confidential and proprietary to Loris Healthcare System and the addressee. 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