[MEDITECH-L] Formulary in Meditech

[Denise Mayer]

Has anyone been able to import their formulary from Meditech into a database? From what I hear, the formulary isn’t user-friendly in Meditech (Magic 5.5 SP2) and we are trying to find a way to either use some type of utility/add-on to get a quick link/icon to a desktop to retrieve the formulary or import the info to a database.

Any ideas???? Any information would be appreciated!

 

Denise Mayer, CPhT.

Clinical Informatics Analyst

Delnor-Community Health System
300 Randall Road
Geneva, Illinois 60134

(630)208-4538

denise...@delnor.com 

 

[Thompson, Jeff]

We are MAGIC 5.2.3.  I just wrote a NPR to write out a comma-delimited file that I link from MS Access to manipulate the data.  It works fine.  I have heard there are some 3rd-party OBDC (MS Access can directly link to OBDC) drivers that link to Meditech but I haven't explored them.

 

 

Jeff Thompson, R.Ph.

Pharmacy Informatics

Newman Regional Health

Emporia, KS 66801

Direct: 620-340-6150

 

 

 

 

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From: meditech-...@MTUsers.com [mailto:meditech-...@MTUsers.com] On Behalf Of Denise Mayer
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Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Formulary in Meditech

[sda...@uhcc.com]

Are you trying to export a formulary list from the Drug Dictionary, or do you want to set up an external database to MANAGE the Drug Dictionary? If you just want to export a medication list (not all the data in the Drug Dictionary) so people can see what's on the formulary, it's a relatively simple matter to write an NPR report with the desired fields set up as a comma-delimited file, which you can print to Download and then import into a word processor, spreadsheet, database, html editor, etc. Of course, this would be a point-in-time snapshot of the formulary whenever it is run, not a real-time view of the formulary.

If you are trying to import the entire Drug Dictionary into a database so you can edit it and send changes back to Meditech... sorry, that's beyond me.

Steven Dailey, RPh
Pharmacist/Information Services
Union Hospital
Elkton, MD  21921

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[m...@rphinformatics.com]

What are you trying to do?  Why not “DOWNLOAD” to an Excel spreadsheet via FD 9 and/or FD 44 in a footnote?

 

 

 

Kevin McConnell, PharmD.

Clinical Consultant

(713)480-6810

ke...@RPhInformatics.com

www.RPhInformatics.com

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From: meditech-...@MTUsers.com [mailto:meditech-...@MTUsers.com] On Behalf Of Denise Mayer
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:30 AM
To: medit...@MTUsers.com
Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Formulary in Meditech

 

Has anyone been able to import their formulary from Meditech into a database? From what I hear, the formulary isn’t user-friendly in Meditech (Magic 5.5 SP2) and we are trying to find a way to either use some type of utility/add-on to get a quick link/icon to a desktop to retrieve the formulary or import the info to a database.

[Richardson, Tim]

That approach worked well for us at my last hospital, Kevin. Download as needed (after updates), imported to MS Access, placed a searchable link on our intranet. Worked like charm and kept everyone happy.

 

Tim Richardson
IS Senior Consultant
CentraState Healthcare System
TRich...@centrastate.com
Extension 732.294.2719

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[Denise Mayer]

We are looking for one-click access from a portal to the formulary.

 

Denise Mayer, CPhT.

Clinical Informatics Analyst

Delnor-Community Health System
300 Randall Road
Geneva, Illinois 60134

(630)208-4538

denise...@delnor.com

From: m...@rphinformatics.com [mailto:m...@rphinformatics.com]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 8:45 PM
To: Denise Mayer; medit...@MTUsers.com
Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Formulary in Meditech

 

What are you trying to do?  Why not “DOWNLOAD” to an Excel spreadsheet via FD 9 and/or FD 44 in a footnote?

[Bodnar-Anderson, Cindy]

We do ours a little differently.... we use the Restricted field in the Drug dictionary to indicate that the drug is non-formulary.  I have three different reports which allow any clinical users (including physicians, but I doubt they use it) to run the report to see what is in our formulary.  (Generic, Trade, or Drug Class are the options for the report). 

 

This way we control the view seen.  The View is different if a pharmacists, it doesn't restrict by this Restricted field.  And no, I didn't do this with a nifty macro back to the Access dictionary, (but I should), I just created additional reports without the select of Restricted = N or Y) controlled by application menu.

 

I know this won't help with all the Part D headaches, but that's another subject.  We also haven't started with BMV, as this project may change this need.

 

Cindy Bodnar-Anderson

IS, Senior Programmer/Analyst

Regional Health

Rapid City SD  57701

 

 

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From: m...@rphinformatics.com [mailto:m...@rphinformatics.com]
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Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Formulary in Meditech

What are you trying to do?  Why not “DOWNLOAD” to an Excel spreadsheet via FD 9 and/or FD 44 in a footnote?

 

 

 

Kevin McConnell, PharmD.

Clinical Consultant

(713)480-6810

ke...@RPhInformatics.com

www.RPhInformatics.com

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From: meditech-...@MTUsers.com [mailto:meditech-...@MTUsers.com] On Behalf Of Denise Mayer
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:30 AM
To: medit...@MTUsers.com
Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Formulary in Meditech

 

Has anyone been able to import their formulary from Meditech into a database? From what I hear, the formulary isn’t user-friendly in Meditech (Magic 5.5 SP2) and we are trying to find a way to either use some type of utility/add-on to get a quick link/icon to a desktop to retrieve the formulary or import the info to a database.

Any ideas???? Any information would be appreciated!

 

Denise Mayer, CPhT.

Clinical Informatics Analyst

Delnor-Community Health System
300 Randall Road
Geneva, Illinois 60134

(630)208-4538

denise...@delnor.com 

 

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