MEDITECH
Pharmacy
product brief
MEDITECH's robust Pharmacy application enables pharmacists across the health care enterprise to perform their daily activities efficiently and effectively. The various tools and routines simplify and expedite processes while ensuring safe, quality care for patients. The Pharmacy application can be used in many different health care settings, including acute care, long-term care, behavioral health, residential care, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. The Pharmacy application meets HIPAA and The Joint Commission guidelines.
Highlights:
The
software helps pharmacists:
•
Reduce clinical errors with intelligent warnings,
messages, and rejection notices
• Gain immediate access to
clinical information from throughout the enterprise
• Access all relevant data
from a single, centralized processing screen
• Minimize lost revenue with
the option to charge on administration
• Enhance decision support
using robust reporting tools
• Maintain proper inventory
levels by linking to dispensing machines.
Standard Features
Increased Patient Safety
MEDITECH
ensures patient safety by notifying users of
medication issues and errors with warnings, messages,
and communication notices. Patient safety features
include:
• Automatic dose, medication, and condition/disease
safety checks
• Additional dosing checks based on maximum dose
(independent of patient size), as well as condition,
age, and gender, thereby preventing overdose errors
• Allergy and adverse drug reaction information,
which is maintained across visits and used to perform
safety checks during medication ordering and
administration
• Checks for drug interactions,
incompatibilities, and duplicate medication orders
• Ability to use rules-based logic when ordering,
dosing, filling, and refilling medications to supply
additional warnings, flags, and messages throughout
the system, thereby improving clinical-decision
making.
Workload Management
MEDITECH's unparalleled integration allows staff to
process all medications from one flexible area. All
the information and tools needed are at the end user's
fingertips. Workload management features include:
• Ability to review and process orders all from
one portal
• Ability to utilize one routine for processing
all patient and order types, such as inpatient or
outpatient orders, nursing home patients, and IV and
oral medications
• Immediate access to Lab results associated
with the medications being ordered or reviewed
• Ability to combine medications, dosages, and
directions into standard order sets, thereby
streamlining order entry
• Access to the patient's electronic medical
record right from the desktop
• Ability to document clinical interventions,
adverse reactions, and progress notes all within the
single order processing area
• Ability to compile reports and statistics from
the same work area
• Ability for users to access their customized
desktops from any network device as well as remotely
• Access to customizable menus based on
responsibilities to streamline workflow.
Accessible Clinical Information and
Monitoring of Treatment Regimens
Pharmacists experience real-time results with
clinical decision support tools, which give them the
following:
• Ability to access Laboratory data during order
entry with additional capability of re-evaluating lab
data when running fill lists
• Rejection of medication ordering and/or
dispensing based upon out-of-range Lab data
• Ability to ensure proper dosing by viewing
calculated dose suggestions based on the patient's
weight, body-surface area, and/or condition
• Clinical notifications provide caregivers with
automatic warnings when clinical information deems it
necessary
• Ability to monitor patient care with drug
utilization evaluations while the patient is
receiving the medication
• Ability to receive notice of patients not
meeting specified criteria to ensure safe
administration, allowing the pharmacist to make
recommendations while they are still in their care.
Minimized Charge Adjustments
Staff can reduce the time spent making cumbersome
charge adjustments by controlling what constitutes
charges and when charges are posted to the patient's
bill. Features include:
• Formulas defining the basis for the charge,
percent mark-ups, minimum charges, and handling fees
• Charges which are sent automatically to
Billing, thereby reducing the paper trail
• Charge capture, which can occur at
administration or dispensing.
Enterprise-wide
Inventory Control
Health Care Organizations can pull together disparate
inventory tracking systems using these connecting
tools and technologies:
• A standard interface to a variety of
dispensing machines, which allows for two-way
communication of data
• Automatic generation of purchase orders for
vendor submission when minimum stock levels are
reached
• Bar coding capabilities to update stock levels
and manage inventories.
Comprehensive
Management Tools and Reporting
Extensive reporting tools give managers access to
important information in a coherent and easy-to-read
format, ensuring efficient Pharmacy management. These
include:
• Drug Utilization Statistics which identify
drug usage and revenue statistics for a selected
month and fiscal year-to-date to evaluate areas of
fiscal interest
• Medication ordering reports to identify
ordering statistics and trends
• Drug Utilization Review to identify what
medications are being administered for certain
conditions
• Clinical Interventions which isolate
interventions needing to be updated or resolved
• Adverse Drug Reaction report which captures
serious issues and allows for clinical review
• Allergy reports which identify to Pharmacy
which allergies and adverse reactions need to be
updated
• Variance reports which identify appropriate/inappropriate
administration practices
• Workload statistics to evaluate the need for
increased or decreased FTE's in a department
• Medication Administration Records which can be
printed within Pharmacy or to a desired Nursing
station
• Nursing worksheets, which provide a paper copy
of the medication record when documenting
electronically
• Expired Rx List that can be used during rounds
to see if medications should be renewed
• Monographs, allowing clinicians to review
medication information and provide education to
patients
• User-friendly ad-hoc reporting tool, allowing
for pre-defined search criteria and manipulation of
information on the fly.
Integration Features
Using Pharmacy in conjunction with other MEDITECH
applications offers many additional benefits and
provides enhanced access to information. Some of
these benefits include:
• Immediate communication of orders to the
department, regardless of point-of-entry such as CPOE,
Nursing, Order Entry, and Pharmacy Order Entry
• Complete and comprehensive enterprise-wide
electronic record populated from information captured
throughout the enterprise
• Flagging of Lab information during order entry
and processing, ensuring enhanced communication
• Microbiology reports from Lab, showing
sensitivity and resistance to antibiotics as well as
antibiotic costs
• Improved workflow by allowing pathway to
Medication Administration documentation
• Full support of J-code billing in conjunction
with MEDITECH's Revenue Management solution
• Ability to track and manage quality and safety
issues, such as ADRs, through integration with
MEDITECH's Health Information Management application.
Dispensing Machine Compatibility
Linking MEDITECH's Pharmacy software with dispensing
machines helps to support medication tracking
management. Benefits include:
• A dynamic, two-way flow of real-time patient
and medication information
• Notifications sent to the Pharmacy system
regarding medication dispensed, medication returned,
machine load/unload, and inventory count
• Notifications sent to the dispensing machine
regarding medications ordered for the patient, and
new/deleted drug dictionary entries
• Tight inventory control due to a link between
medication administration and dispensing
• Ability to manage inventories on the location,
site, facility, and enterprise level.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative.
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com