Re: [MEDITECH-L] meditech-l Digest, Vol 47, Issue 8

[Lee, Geoffrey]

We are CS 5.54 and use OmniCell. We have 2 units in OR. The machines are set to accept all patients of any status via the global patient list. We have never had to transfer patients to be able to remove meds. It sounds more like a problem with the Accudose machine not being able to recognize patients with varying status. Check with McKesson to see if the dispensing machine settings can be changed.

Geoffrey Lee
Pharmacy Director
Logansport Memorial Hospital
1101 Michigan Avenue
PO Box 7013
Logansport, IN 46947
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Meditech is recommending to our site that the patients be TRANSFERRED (in
ADM) to OR in order to select the patient to get drugs out of a McKesson
Accudose. That would mean we would have to have beds in the OR for patients
to be put into when transferring. In other facilities, where I worked with
Pyxis, we never did this. We just had the OR be able to select any patient
except for CLI, REF. We had this set on our dispensing machine interface
side. This site is CS 5.6 and is a McKesson shop with robot as well as
accudose. Is there some reason they would really need to do this??? I
cannot imagine how anyone would be able to keep up with this. Plus, OR
usually removes the drugs in advance and wants the patients at PRE status as
well....I can't imagine how you would do this with in patients. We could
never keep up with actually doing a ADM transfer for this. They say the
site should do this for the cath lab as well. 3 Meditech specialist told
them this. I am just having a hard time believing it and never did it at 3
other sites using Pyxis. What is your experience with using dispensing
machines in the OR? Thanks in advance!!
Debbie Kelly, MS, RN, BC
Informatics Nurse Specialist

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[Terry Lehmann]

Each Acudose can be set up differently at each unit. One unit can be set
to view all beds in facility, and at the same time another cabinet can
be set to view a unit only or a Zone which is created by grouping units.

An example would be an ER cabinet can view all beds in that hospital,
then a specific unit like Unit C (Medical) can be set up to see Unit C
patients only.

Terry Lehmann
Senior Consultant
Healthtech Consultants
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Toronto, ON M5J 2L7
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