ANNUAL REPORT FY2006
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COMPUTERIZATION AND AUTOMATION
The
Department of Pharmacy utilizes and supports computer and automated systems in
a number of areas. The Medical Center
Information Technology (MCIT) Pharmacy team is responsible for supporting a number
of these systems. The department has
also utilized its own technical expertise in developing and supporting systems
such as PharmDoc, WebIDS
and the Pharmacy external and internal web pages.
MCIT Pharmacy team
The MCIT
Pharmacy team is a group within MCIT assigned solely to the support of
technology in Pharmacy. This includes
support of major pharmacy applications, Pharmacy
automated dispensing systems, and other technical responsibilities such as ad
hoc report production and desktop support.
The team is located in the B2 Pharmacy administrative office area. The group provides Pharmacy systems support
24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per
year. The team responds to an average of
90 MCIT help desk calls per month.
In addition
to implementation and support activities, the MCIT Pharmacy team is actively
involved in the education of pharmacy informatics professionals through the
PGY2 Pharmacy Informatics program and precepting
students on rotation from the
Major Pharmacy systems
·
WORx – Inpatient Pharmacy system used to support Pharmacy dispensing,
clinical and billing activities.
·
QS/1
– Outpatient Pharmacy System used to support pharmacy dispensing, clinical and
billing activities in the
·
QS/1
– Outpatient Pharmacy Point of
·
Ateb IVR phone refill system used in the Ambulatory Care Pharmacy
·
Omnicell – Approximately 100 automated dispensing cabinets utilized
throughout the
·
SecureMed – Narcotic Vault management system
·
ECHO
– Amerisource/Bergen purchasing system
·
PharmDoc.Net
– Clinical pharmacy management system
·
WebIDS – Investigational Drug Service management system
Pharmacy automated dispensing
systems
·
Omnicell – dispensing system used to secure
and manage medication inventory
·
McKesson RxOBOT
- UH inpatients only
- Fills on average 450
drawers/day
- 4000 - 4500 pics/day
- 798 line items
·
ScriptPro
- Used in Ambulatory Care
Pharmacy (ACP)
- Fills approximately 40-45% of
ACP prescriptions
- Contains 178 Line items
Fiscal Year 2006 Activities
There was a
great deal of activity in computerization and automation in the Department over
the past year. This work included the
following projects:
- WORx in patient Pharmacy system
- Performed WORx
2.8 application upgrade in November 2005
- Supported implementation of a
new CareWeb/WORx allergy interface including
following up problem resolution
- QS/1, outpatient pharmacy system
- Performed QS/1 Version 18.1.12
Upgrade (Medicare Prescription Drug Program)
- Performed Outpatient
Pharmacies Workflow Implementation Project
- Performed QS/1 Version 18.1.14
Upgrade Implementation
- Performed QS/1 Version 18.1.16
Upgrade Implementation
- Omnicell Pharmacy Central (OPC) Inventory system
Supported system implementation in May of 2006
- MedexPharmguard
Supported the install and deployment
of the syringe pump project.
- Hospira MedNet Wireless PCA pump
project
Supported the install and deployment
of the Hospira MedNet
system.
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Workload system development
- Completed development of this
system including additional time standard metric tables in Informix,
workload analysis reports and graphs.
- Presented a poster
presentation on the Workload system at the annual Mediware
Pharmacy User Group meeting in April 2006.
- Omnicell:
o
Deployed
26 new cabinets
o
Upgraded
server and all cabinets to Omnicell 10000 version of
software.
o
Installed
a new PPC – OmniGate server.
o
Installed
Safety Stock hardware on all cabinets.
o
Assisted
in the implementation of RxAuditor
o
Moved
XPC and OmniGate server to TC Machine room
o
Beta
site for Omnicell 10.0 and 10.1 Beta program
Key Automation projects planned for
2007
Computerization
and automation efforts in the Department of Pharmacy continue this year with
the following active major projects:
- IDS Pharmacy inventory
management system
- OMP (Orders Management Project)
- WORx, inpatient Pharmacy system,
upgrade
- Omnicell system Beta partner