Any Meditech experts here?

[pharm B]

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So I'm trying to run some reports based on specific drugs (like patients who used Vancomycin in the ICU in the month of June, down to that kind of level) or based on a given frequency (all patients this month who had ".QHD" or something) .

Does anyone know anything about Meditech? I've been googling like crazy with no luck. Apparently there's something called Report Designer, but I can't find it on my "Pharmacist Desktop" or in the launcher.

 

[fattunesy]

I am a clinical informatics pharmacist who does Meditech stuff...I might be able to be of assistance. What are you using? Client Server? 6.0? Magic? I know magic pretty well, but might be able to help out on the other systems.

NPR is report writer. If you do not know what you are doing STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM IT. I am not joking. Using it requires writing essentially data programs in the NPR language Meditech uses. Not too long ago I wrote one to pull some information from the drug dicitonary, and without realizing it, created a loop due to poor syntax. This loop started pulling more and more resources until the whole system went down. One missing semi-colon caused our whole system to go down...for the whole hospital. Not one of my prouder moments.

 

[pharm B]

I'm not sure if we're using magic or otherwise. I do know when I click about "About," it says it's version 8.56. other stuff.

I definitely won't look into NPR any more.

I'm just trying to figure out how I can create a report that eventually shows me all of the patients on dialysis during a given period of time, maybe a month or a year. My goal is to go through the list and see if they had any missed ABX, procrit, etc, doses by auditing their profiles.

 

[fattunesy]

What you are looking for is a "PHA Search". These are customizable, in the PHA module, and will not crash the system.

 

[pharm B]

Will you PM me when you get back on? I tried doing a search from the Pharmacist Desktop and it ended up running for like 16 hours before I stopped it. I found some PHAStat search options, but it only let me sort by facility and date, not by drug, frequency, or anything else.