Hi all,
I find myself in a situation where my FSV load has been allowed to fall woefully out of date. Does anyone out there know if I have to load every single intervening month’s MIS and PHA files? Or, can I simply skip ahead to the most recent MIS/PHA? Our vendor is First Data Bank.
Thanks!
Pam Martin, PharmD, RPh
Director of Pharmacy
Arizona Spine & Joint Hospital
Mesa, Arizona
Office: 480-824-1260
Cell: 480-250-3030
Fax: 480-824-1271
Not sure if this is correct, but we were always told to do each month separately until get caught up with all of them. SO that is what we have always done.
Have a Great Day!
Judi Gast RN, BSN
IT Analyst/Programmer
Information Management and Technology
P: 912-287-4241
F: 912-287-2579
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Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross
1900 Tebeau Street
Waycross, GA 31501
Last year we converted from Micromedex to FDB and we were told, and did, the same thing.
Thanks,
Tom Bluhm
I.S. Director
(360) 299-1335 office
(360) 661-1245 cell
The Island Hospital Promise ~ 'Your best healthcare experience begins at Island Hospital. We always place your emotional and medical needs first and foremost.'
Thanks Tom, and thanks everyone else for all the feedback I’ve received.
The responses seem evenly split between OK to skip loads and not OK. I’ll take the safe route and plug along one by one until I get caught up J
Pam,
It has been my experience with First Data Bank that you need to load every single month MIS & PHA files. You will get a warning if you attempt to load the most current month and you are out dated. Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Christine

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Hi all,
We were told that each file needs to be loaded because they have different changes in each one.
Hope this helps.
Lynelle
Lynelle Boyd, RN
Clinical Information Systems Analyst
IT Department
Granville Health System
( 919-690-3452 | 7 919-690-3213
We had the same issue, we had to load all prior months to get up to date.
Thanks,
Rhonda
Rhonda McKissick, LPN, DBA, CPT, CMUP, CMUA
IT Applications Analyst
George Regional Health System
Office: 601-673-6016
Cell: 601-508-9015
Email: rmcki...@georgeregional.com
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Hi Folks,
Not to be the voice of dissent, but we recently converted from Medispan to FDB in August. One of the points we clarified with meditech was this, and we were told that we did NOT have to load fsv loads that were missed if we fell behind.
That’s good, because FDB actually delivers us WEEKLY fsv files, we just load the newest one once a month.
Meditech confirms this in a KBase article.
https://www.meditech.com/kb/Custform.ASP?urn=42400
On the other hand, for medispan, it is essential that you load them in order, for reasons meditech goes into in the above article.
Andrew Ventura, Pharm.D, MBA
Pharmacy Informaticist, Information Systems
Augusta Health, Fishersville VA
I am trying to think back what they told us. We only update monthly also. We were told you can skip a month or so, but that could cause problems with missed information because each file has different data in it. That is what I am recalling but cannot take an oath that it was stated exactly like that…ha ha.
Have a Great Day!
Judi Gast RN, BSN
IT Analyst/Programmer
Information Management and Technology
P: 912-287-4241
F: 912-287-2579
__________________________________________
Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross
1900 Tebeau Street
Waycross, GA 31501
should add…so we decided to do each month no matter what….playing catch up at busier times of the year.
Have a Great Day!
Judi Gast RN, BSN
IT Analyst/Programmer
Information Management and Technology
P: 912-287-4241
F: 912-287-2579
__________________________________________
Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross
1900 Tebeau Street
Waycross, GA 31501
Pam,
We load ours quarterly. You will just load the most recent file.
Thanks,
Katie
Katie Pinkerton
Clinical Informatics Analyst
Clinical Transformation Department
Mercy Medical Center
Office: 330-489-1382
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Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 4:42 PM
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We were told during the RXM cleanup not to skip any because each FDB monthly/quarterly content contains unique recycled NDCs. This sets up the MEDITECH recycled NDC index that PHA and RXM uses which gets overwritten with each file.