[MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR
Kim Corrette
Greetings, L-listers,
How have other sites backed up the electronic Medication Administration Record for printing when there is an unplanned Meditech downtime?
We are Magic 5.5 SR3. Using Meditech’s FTP routine, we’ve been able to spool the MAR to a PC hard-drive but the report scheduling routine does not seem to allow hourly or semi-hourly scheduling. How have others resolved the need for frequent backup?
TIA –
Kim Corrette, RN
Clinical IS Analyst
Bartlett Regional Hospital
Juneau, AK
Alan Miller
actually, you can schedule for every minute (not that you'd want to). I
have a census report that is SCHED for every hour.
In the E/E Report Schedule window, use frequency = DAILY, then make
your MIS start times whatever is appropriate. You can add as many start
times as you need. (0100, 0200, 0300, 0400, etc.). I recommend that you
don't choose whole hours, since most people set their schedules to run
on the hour. Sometimes my little report got lost in the SCHED shuffle
and didn't get run when I had it set for the top of the hour. Instead,
I changed to 0055, 0155, 0255, etc to stay away from these peak times,
and now it never fails to run.
HTH
Alan Miller, RPh
>>> "Kim Corrette" <kcor...@bartletthospital.org> 01/02/2007 14:40
>>>
Greetings, L-listers,
How have other sites backed up the electronic Medication
Administration
Record for printing when there is an unplanned Meditech downtime?
We are Magic 5.5 SR3. Using Meditech's FTP routine, we've been able
to
spool the MAR to a PC hard-drive but the report scheduling routine
does
not seem to allow hourly or semi-hourly scheduling. How have others
resolved the need for frequent backup?
TIA -
Kim Corrette, RN
Clinical IS Analyst
Bartlett Regional Hospital
Juneau, AK
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.COM.
To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET.
For help, email sup...@MTUsers.NET.
______________________________________
meditech-l mailing list
medit...@MTUsers.com
http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
Lehl, Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: medit...@MTUsers.com [mailto:medit...@MTUsers.com] On Behalf Of Kim Corrette
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:41 PM
To: medit...@MTUsers.com
Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR
Greetings, L-listers,
How have other sites backed up the electronic Medication Administration Record for printing when there is an unplanned Meditech downtime?
We are Magic 5.5 SR3. Using Meditech’s FTP routine, we’ve been able to spool the MAR to a PC hard-drive but the report scheduling routine does not seem to allow hourly or semi-hourly scheduling. How have others resolved the need for frequent backup?
TIA –
Bluhm, Tom
We use Interbit’s Mprint/Netprint product to capture the MAR every hour. Pretty slick.
Tom Bluhm
I.S. Director
Island Hospital
(360) 299-1335
From:
medit...@MTUsers.com [mailto:medit...@MTUsers.com] On Behalf Of Kim Corrette
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007
11:41 AM
To: medit...@MTUsers.com
Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up
the eMAR
Reid, Gloria
Please post. We’re in the process right now of developing our downtime plans for e-MAR as we plan to go LIVE with it in the ED next month. We plan to use Automate to script the e-MAR and some other reports to run and download every 30 minutes to an hour. I’d like to know what others are doing. Please post.
Gloria J. Reid
MIS Assistant Director
Johnston Memorial Hospital
Phone (919)938-7758
Pager (919)871-7045
From:
medit...@MTUsers.com [mailto:medit...@MTUsers.com] On Behalf Of Kim Corrette
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007
2:41 PM
To: medit...@MTUsers.com
Subject: [MEDITECH-L]
Backing up the eMAR
Greetings, L-listers,
How have other sites backed up the electronic Medication Administration Record for printing when there is an unplanned Meditech downtime?
We are Magic 5.5 SR3. Using Meditech’s FTP routine, we’ve been able to spool the MAR to a PC hard-drive but the report scheduling routine does not seem to allow hourly or semi-hourly scheduling. How have others resolved the need for frequent backup?
TIA –
Kim Corrette, RN
Clinical IS Analyst
Bartlett Regional Hospital
Juneau, AK
______________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email
______________________________________________________________________
DISCLAIMER: The contents of this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, dissemination, copying,distribution or other use of the contents of this message or any attachment by you is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by telephone (919-934-8171), and please delete this message and all attachments from your system. Thank you. READER BEWARE: Unencrypted, unauthenticated Internet e-mail is inherently insecure. Internet messages may be corrupted or incomplete, or may incorrectly identify the sender. Please contact me if you wish to arrange for more secure communication or to authenticate this message. Compliance Officer Johnston Memorial Hospital (919) 938-7121
Oscar Beninati
Hello All,
I have noticed that many of you have been looking for a way to backup your eMAR during scheduled and non-scheduled downtimes. Some responses I have seen answer some of the ways to back up the eMAR, but what happens if you can’t get to the network which is the most frequent cause of downtimes? It is a good idea to have the eMAR and other important reports backed up on your servers, but it is as important to have them backed up on a local hard drive so that they can be printed when the network is down and you can’t reach the main servers.
MPrint Server gives you the ability to define PCs and/or printers attached to PCs throughout your organization as MEDITECH devices. Printers can be shared even when they do not have Network Interface Cards (NICs) or terminal server ports. Reports can be automatically directed to PC hard drives via MEDITECH spooling utilities. MPrint Server runs as a background service on the Microsoft Windows platform and allows you to define multiple instances and rules in one program, offering better performance and simpler operation. Provides logs of print jobs to ensure all data is transferred to the appropriate locations. Mprint Server offers a simplified print routine to enable anybody to operate the product. Distributes one report to multiple locations to reduce overhead and ensure consistency.
Please visit our website at www.interbitdata.com and download your Free Trial version of Mprint Server,
Sincerely
Oscar Beninati
Director of Sales
Interbit Data Inc.
10 W. Central St.
Natick, MA 01760
Grisanti, Michael
Michael S Grisanti,
RPh
Pharmacy
Services
St
Mary's Hospital @ Amsterdam NY
518 841-3834
gris...@smha.org
To: Kim Corrette; medit...@MTUsers.com
Cc: medit...@MTUsers.com
Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Backing up the eMAR
Please post. We're in the process right now of developing our downtime plans for e-MAR as we plan to go LIVE with it in the ED next month. We plan to use Automate to script the e-MAR and some other reports to run and download every 30 minutes to an hour. I'd like to know what others are doing. Please post.
Gloria J. Reid
MIS Assistant Director
Johnston Memorial Hospital
Phone (919)938-7758
Pager (919)871-7045
From:
medit...@MTUsers.com [mailto:medit...@MTUsers.com] On Behalf Of Kim Corrette
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:41
PM
To:
medit...@MTUsers.com
Subject:
[MEDITECH-L] Backing up the
eMAR
Greetings, L-listers,
How have other sites backed up the electronic Medication Administration Record for printing when there is an unplanned Meditech downtime?
We are Magic 5.5 SR3. Using Meditech's FTP routine, we've been able to spool the MAR to a PC hard-drive but the report scheduling routine does not seem to allow hourly or semi-hourly scheduling. How have others resolved the need for frequent backup?
TIA -
Kim Corrette, RN
Clinical IS Analyst
Bartlett Regional Hospital
Juneau, AK
______________________________________________________________________
This
email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
For more
information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email
______________________________________________________________________
Oscar Beninati
Hello Mike and L’ers,
Backing up the eMAR on the DR is a good idea, but does not solve the network downtime. If the network goes down, you will not be able to reach the eMAR on the DR. Mprint Server is independent of your network. With eMAR stored on a local PC in each dept/ward, even if the network is down you can print the eMAR to a local printer. Network downtime is a more common downtime then MEDITECH going down.
Please visit our website at www.interbitdata.com and under downloads, you can install a FREE trial version of Mprint Server. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me.
Oscar Beninati
Director of Sales
Interbit Data Inc.
10 W. Central St.
Natick, MA 01760
MeditechL
Hi Oscar and L’ers
Actually, the Data Repository (DR) generates the eMAR in a nicely formatted Adobe Acrobat file and publishes it to PCs located at each of the hospital’s Units. The reports are updated on a 10 minute cycle, a frequency not possible using an NPR report. The Unit PCs, along with a local printer, are connected to backup power (red outlets) making each Unit’s report available whether MEDITECH applications go down, the network goes down, or power goes down. Each report not only provides eMAR administration documentation for the previous 24 hours but also projects forward 24 hours providing appropriate space for documentation of existing active meds as well as space for new meds to be ordered during planned or unplanned downtime.
Using the DR running in continuous update mode has proven to be a very robust eMAR/BMV downtime solution and this strategy has been employed at several other MEDITECH hospitals. Please feel free to contact Mike Grisanti or me if you would like additional details or to look at a sample of the downtime eMAR report.
Glen R. D’Abate
Acmeware, Inc. (consultant for St. Mary’s hospital)
Charlie Downs
Washington County Hospital
Inpatient Pharmacy
251 E. Antietam Street
Hagerstown, MD, 21740
301-790-8904
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.COM.
To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET.
For help, email sup...@MTUsers.NET.
______________________________________
meditech-l mailing list
medit...@MTUsers.com
http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
***** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ***** This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.