We are MAGIC 5.6 PP4 with FirstDataBank. If I understand your question correctly, you might be talking about Hyzaar 100/25 which FDB would strength as each for dose checking, etc. In these situations I edit the drug ID and that shows everywhere that I have found. It seems to work well for us. It is a 1 time fix since we turned off overwrite in the FSV update process. A lot of sites would/have edit(ed) the generic to include the strength but I'm always afraid to customize such an important thing from the FSV.
HTH. Jeff Thompson, RPH Newman Regional Health Emporia, Kansas 66801 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Hall Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] No Strength on some FDB Drugs! Hello, L: How are you PHA/FDB users dealing with the following problem: Meditech builds their drug ID field from the generic name, strength, and dispense form fields. But there are many drugs coming from FDB that do NOT consistently have the strength field on them. Or, the strength field is imbedded in the trade name field, rather than being in the strength field. This leads to a problem, since the drug lookup at order time does not have sufficient info for the person ordering to distinguish which is the correct drug per the doctor's order. We could investigate these by NDC number and eventually repair, but our pharmacy director is very uncomfortable with editing the drug ID fields, and would prefer that be done from the formulary source. What are you all doing about this? Do you just bite the bullet, do the research by NDC, and correct the drug ID fields manually with the strength?? My pharmacist says his license is on the line, he doesn't want to do this manually! Does this problem also occur with MediSpan? Thanks! Gary Hall Clinical Applications Analyst Estes Park Medical Center Information Systems Department 970-577-4443 The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender of this communication immediately.
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