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Tom, We have ~10 facilities in Kansas City that have been using ISBT for quite some time. While there have been some issues (mostly with aliquotting/divisions - a CMS has been delivered for a fix; and only one vendor approved to print ISBT labels out of MEDITECH), the facilities have reported very few issues. To address your questions: 1) How will the screens handle going from Source to DIN...especially when scanning in units? Since the source number is embedded in the 13 character unit number (W####), the software has no problem scanning the unit number in within the different routines. Once the ISBT source code is defined in the source dictionary, the software recognizes the format as ISBT and pulls in the source. 2) What dictionary changes are needed? Source Dictionary (format on the label is 13 characters but the dictionary entry is simply the first 5 characters: W####). Product Dictionary (format on the label is 8 characters but the dictionary entry is simply the first 5 characters: E####). Blood Type Dictionary (format on the label is 4 numbers but the dictionary entry is simply the first 2 numbers: ##). Customer Defined Parameters (label printing and Ag mnemonics) 3) Will MEDITECH handle concatenation or do you have to scan in one bar code at a time like you do now? MEDITECH does handle concatenation, but your scanners may not. MEDITECH's Quick Enter Inventory Units routine was designed to allow for concatenation. A good source of information (aside from the MEDITECH documentation) to educate you and your staff about the new ISBT label format can be found at the following link: http://www.militaryblood.dod.mil/library/guidelines/labeling.htm Hope this helps! Steve Luc, MT(ASCP), MBA HCM Senior Clinical Business Analyst Clinical Systems Product Development HCA Information Technology & Services 2545 Park Plaza Building 3-2W t: (615) 344-1526 f: (866) 743-0134 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hcahealthcare.com This email and any files transmitted with it may contain PRIVILEGED or CONFIDENTIAL information and may be read or used only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of the email or any of its attachments, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email or any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately purge it and all attachments and notify the sender by reply email or contact the sender at the number listed. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gronert, Tom Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Blood Bank ISBT-128 All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== I have seen a number of questions on the meditech-l about how to implement ISBT-128 in Blood Bank...but very few responses. Has anyone done this successfully and if so could you post to the -l? Our local Red Cross is set to convert by March of 2007 and we have a number of questions ( I have listed just a few): 1) How will the screens handle going from Source to DIN...especially when scanning in units? 2) What dictionary changes are needed? 3) Will MEDITECH handle concatenation or do you have to scan in one bar code at a time like you do now? Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated! Tom Gronert Application Analyst St. Joseph Medical Center 7601 Osler Drive Towson, Maryland 21204 P (410)337-1954 F (410)427-5432 The information in this communication is confidential and private and intended only for the use of the addressee. Unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you received this communication in error, please destroy it and inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your cooperation. _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
