Category:Pharm: Inpatient Medications

The Inpatient Medications package integrates functions from the Intravenous (IV) and Unit Dose (UD) modules (described on the following page). This integration provides a comprehensive record of medications utilized during hospitalization of the veteran, the functionality for clinician order entry through Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), and tailors processes by facility, user, and/or medication.

Features

Integrated software allows these features, via the List Manager interface, for both IV and Unit Dose. This provides the user the capability to:

• Browse through a list of orders and take action(s) against those items.
• Print 7-day, 14-day, and 24-hour MARs, labels, and profiles from within the options.
• Select a detailed allergy report, document new allergies or adverse drug reactions.
• Update the Patient’s Record from within List Manager.
• Provides Drug/Drug Interaction, Drug/Class Interaction, Duplicate Drug, and Duplicate Class Order checks.
• Allows easier drug selection using Orderable Item.
• Provides on-line order maintenance (for example: edit, renewal, cancellation) and marks orders that need attention.
• Provides on-line order entry with an integrity check for each order type.
• Generates labels containing order and patient information upon the entry/maintenance of an order.
• Provides on-line or printed patient profiles that include a history of medication orders for the current or last medical center visit.
• Displays patient order information and histories of all actions taken on active orders.
• Provides an Action Profile of patient medication orders for use by physicians to cancel or continue medications.
• Provides a Stop Order Notice report to notify users of orders near expiration.
• Cancels/holds medication orders for patients transferred between wards and/or services.
• Provides dispensing cost reports by patient, ward, service, drug, and providers.
• Provides reports and forms by patient, ward, and selected groups of wards.
• Allows electronic entry and inpatient processing of medication orders for an outpatient receiving treatment via a clinic or ancillary service.