Patient, Order Entry, Drug Distribution

• Quick and easy admissions, discharges, and transfers
• Unlimited allergy and diagnosis fields
• Medication safety features
• Custom room lists and room/sort order
• Administration schedule codes for each ward
• Unit dose and IV admixture orders
• Automated dispensing cabinet interfaces
• Floor stock and narcotic orders
• Common (predefined) order templates
• Parenteral nutrition orders
• Outpatient prescriptions
• Automatic order classification (floor stock vs dispense by pharmacy) based on availability from auto-dispensing system cabinet
• Unlimited ingredients per order
• User-defined order types
• Enter most orders in 1 step (pick a drug) or 2 steps (pick a drug then enter a Sig)!
• Automatic population of order fields
• Automatic recalculation of dosage, quantity, and volume if any of these fields are edited
• Automatic substitution of banned codes with user-defined replacements
• Choose drugs by generic, brand or mnemonic
• Automatic scheduling of all doses
• Handles complex orders such as QOD, Q16H, specific days of the week, etc.
• Determines "starter doses" needed up until next batch refill.
• Automated order rewrites and quick renewals
• Unlimited order comment lines
• Pop-up messages/reminders
• Full stop date/quantity support
• Perform group order changes (e.g., DC all IVs)
• Multiple profile views allow you to rapidly filter orders (e.g., active, DC'd, inactive/held), and quickly review recent charges, clinical interventions, and scheduled dosage dates/times.
• Sort by clicking on column headings (e.g., sort by drug name, start date, status, and etc.)
• Reprint fill (pick) lists and IV labels without double-charging
• Receive/review orders from optional electronic order entry/CPOE system (.e.g., Eclipsys, Claris, and others)

Medication Safety/Clinical Features

• Automatic alerts and documentation for:
  • Allergy checking
  • Duplicate therapy checking
  • Drug-Drug interactions
  • Food-Drug interactions
  • Geriatric/Pediatric warnings
  • Pregnancy/Lactation warnings
  • Renal precautions based on ClCr
    
• Usual dosage ranges displayed during order entry
• Easy documentation/reporting of actions, outcomes and time/cost savings from your interventions
• "Follow-up" flags for reminders and reports
• Patient education monographs in English and Spanish
• Monthly clinical database updates
• Automatic calculation of creatinine clearance
• Renal precautions and screening based on ClCr
• Automatic calculation of BSA, IBW, IDW
• Unlimited room for labeling information/warnings
• Pop-up reminders for incomplete clinical reviews

Medication Administration Records

• 1, 2, 3 and 15 day MAR formats are built-in
• Pain assessment codes and documentation
• User-defined site codes and text options
• Multiple options allow user customization
• Print MARs directly to nursing station printers
• Optional Ascend-electronic MAR, or interface to other electronic MARs

Charges

• Transmit charges to your hospital financial system automatically
• Late charge transactions can be entered and will be automatically included with the next charge transmission process.
• View charge history for an unlimited period
• View charges for patients on a summary basis, or on a detailed "administration time" level
• Charges from auto-dispensing systems appear on the patients profile on a "real-time" basis
• Charge transaction dates are the same as drug administration dates/times (as required by Medicare)
• You can configure the program to charge scheduled doses automatically
• You can configure the program to automatically reverse charges for any doses scheduled after the DC date. (Eliminate manual crediting)
• Reprint labels, fill/pick lists, etc with no danger of "double-charging"

Administrative

• SQL Server database for maximum safety, speed, storage, and security (HIPAA)
• Multi-level security controls the level of user access to data/functions (e.g., HIPAA features)
• Meets HIPAA patient confidentiality, access log, security requirements
• Tracks all changes to order and patient data including who made the change, when it was made, what it contained before & after change.
• Provides features to meet JCAHO requirements such as Continuum of Care reports on admission and discharge
• Set required patient and order fields
• Set which order fields can be edited and which require a new order (created automatically)
• Create your own order types for reports, labels, statistics, etc.
• Quality improvement data
• User-defined system defaults
• Inventory and cost reporting
• Track costs by item, doctor, admission, order, and etc.
• Unlimited user-defined fields for drugs and patients can be used as filters for reports
• Drug utilization and workload data
• View order volume by hour of day, unit.
• Program and database updates via website
• On line help available in program and on website

Interfaces

• ADT (patient demographics) and Charge interfaces
• Transmit charges electronically via network/web, or create batch files
• Pyxis, Omnicell, Suremed, Med-Dispense etc. automated dispensing interfaces
• Laboratory system interfaces
• CPOE, electronic MAR and medication utilization interfaces (i.e., send and receive order data to/from any other system such as Pyxis Visual-Med, and Hann's On Software's electronic order entry/MAR)
• HL7 and TCP/IP interfaces
• Maintains log of all inbound messages

Labels

• Admission, IV and Unit dose order labels
• Floor stock and Outpatient order labels
• Custom labels
• Automatic label selection based on order type
• Automatic printer selection based on order type
• Each station can share the same printers, use their own printers, or any mixture thereof.
• Configure software to prompt for labels or not
• Batch-print labels for any time period
• Batch print "Catch-up" labels for recently added orders
• Reprint IV labels without double-charging!
• Automatic vertical spacing on labels to accommodate unlimited ingredients, comments, etc. Program automatically uses more labels when needed!

Reports

• Census
• Charges
• Formulary
• Clinical alerts
• Physician data
• Continuum of Care
• Follow-up reports
• IV rounds reports
• Adverse reactions
• Discharge summary
• Charge/billing reports
• Pharmacy interventions
• Missing patient information
• Stop order reports/notices
• Workload by hour and by unit
• Interdepartmental cost transfers
• Utilization and Order activity reports
• Concurrent and retrospective reporting
• Medication administration records: Configure a MAR to meet your needs, without a programmer!
• Print MARs in pharmacy, or automatically direct them to printers at the nursing stations
• Multiple filters let you focus/expand your search
• Reports can be viewed on screen and/or printed
• Use Microsoft Access to create custom reports
• Reports can go to a shared default report printer, or you select an alternate printer
• Useful reports for pharmacy management companies and pharmacy directors
• .....and much more

Formulary and Inventory Control

• Obtain database/program updates monthly via the internet
• Receiving/inventory module
• Pre-assign order entry defaults to drug records
• Formulary management module
• Floor stock control with optional barcode support
• Full integration of auto-dispensing cabinet stock with order entry functions
• Pre-assign floor stock lists to beds to eliminate many floor stock processing steps