Pharmacy (Inpatient and Ambulatory)

by pdm — last modified 2007-06-07 12:37

PiMS Pharmacy system provides today's ambulatory and hospital inpatient pharmacy with cutting edge solutions to medication dispensing. It supports the pharmacist in providing the best pharmaceutical care possible by increasing efficiency and accuracy when entering and dispensing, as well as support for all clinical activities.

What PiMS Pharmacy does for you:

Use as standalone or integrated with PiMS Registration, Billing and Collections.
Orders for all types of patients: inpatients, short stays, ER,
pre-admits and outpatients.
Fast and accurate pharmacist, or technician order entry.
Color coded warnings, with the color and icon based on the severity level of the warning.
Drug-to-drug interaction checking and Monographs with the ability to define the warning level desired.
Various levels of Allergy checking with two options for allergy entry; a comprehensive flow for the clinical operators and a simpler version for the admitting type operator.
Duplicate therapy check based on defined parameters for identical drug and therapeutic duplication.
Automatically create Clinical Interventions based on parameters and the option to charge for the interventions and pharmacy clinical services.
Pop Up messages to provide quick information by passing the mouse pointer over a field.
Labels can be printed, reprinted and split between vials/bottles.
Global Formulary can be shared among all pharmacies in a multi-facility environment, with individualized subsets of data for each and the ability to centralize the Formulary maintenance task.
Extensive Workload and Clinical reports with the ability to preview prior to printing.
Point-and-click capability and intuitive design.
Consistent flow between outpatient prescriptions and inpatient medication orders.
Allow flexibility by providing online options to control system features.

Demonstrations:

To view the demonstrations that have been provided the Lotus ScreenCam Player must be downloaded. You will need to have administrater rights to download this software to your computer.

Download the Lotus ScreenCam Player

New Rx Entry

Dispense Rx

New Service Master Item

Brochure:

Download the Pharmacy brochure

Ambulatory Pharmacy

Speed and accuracy is the aim of the prescription entry flow. The option to search for drugs by generic, brand, label name or mnemonic is provided. When you enter individual prescription fields, help is available with easy-to-access Windows® help functionality. The ability to enter a group of prescriptions for a patient with optional detail screen makes the process for entering routine prescriptions fast. Prescription entry flows are similar to inpatient, making the transition seamless. Clinic and Emergency prescriptions, discharge meds, employee and ambulatory prescriptions can be entered. Multiple prescription labels can be printed with duplicate or split label option.

Clinical Activities

Drug-to-drug interactions and monographs, allergy checking, identical medication, duplicate therapy, medication label warnings and patient education are just some of the tools available to support the physician, pharmacist and technical personnel in providing the best pharmaceutical care possible.

Inventory

A perpetual inventory is maintained for medications at each dispensing location and storage location. Functionality is in place to receive and send order information to wholesalers. A simple manual process is provided for inventory receipts and transfers.

Labels/Notices

Each type of medication can have a different label format. Medication labels can be printed when the order is entered or during the verification process.

Notices can be printed at the operators location, patient’s location and the dispensing location for new orders, renewals, discontinued, change, hold and renewed orders.

Reports

Formulary reports with multiple sort options are available for printing. All reports provided can be previewed prior to printing.

Medication Usage and Expenditure reports sorted by prescriber, usage and by drug and Cumulative Workload reports are available.

Additional client specific reports can be created by the institution's technical staff using any report writer capable of accessing the relational data base platform chosen by the customer.

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