| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
This patch is part of the Pharmacy Safety Updates project which was
APPLICATION/VERSION PATCH
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OUTPATIENT PHARMACY (OP) V. 7.0 PSO*7*444
INTEGRATED BILLING (IB) V. 2.0 IB*2*545
PHARMACY DATA MANAGEMENT (PDM) V. 1.0 PSS*1*189
NATIONAL DRUG FILE (NDF) V. 4.0 PSN*4*429
INPATIENT MEDICATIONS (IM) V.5.0 PSJ*5*313
The following New service Requests (NSR) are related to this patch:
established to address specific New Service Requests (NSRs) as well as a
NSRs 20060601/20111206 Allow Dispensing of Greater Than 90 Day Supply
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The Outpatient Pharmacy and supporting VistA applications are being modified
to allow dispensing of more than 90 day supply fill for outpatient
prescriptions. The new limit will be 365 days and will be set for each drug
individually. See below for more information on specific menu
options related to this enhancement.
NSR 20110308 Addition of a STRENGTH Property to IV ADDITIVES and Premixed
Remedy Ticket and a Patient Safety Issue (PSI) related to the VistA Pharmacy
IV SOLUTIONS
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Although patches PSJ*5*289 and PSS*1*174 introduced quite a few enhancements
to the IV Additives and IV Solutions ordering functionality they did not go
far enough in addressing all the issues originally in the NSR. Patches
PSJ*5*313 and PSS*1*189 will extend the display of the IV Additive strength
to other parts of the Inpatient Medications and Pharmacy Data Management
applications. In addition, it will also impose a new rule where an Orderable
Item can only have one IV Solution for a specific volume when it is marked
to be used in the CPRS IV Fluid Order Entry.
applications as approved by the Health Systems Enterprise Systems Manager
The following Integrated Billing copay functionality was modified:
1. Cancel/Edit/Add Patient Charges [IB CANCEL/EDIT/ADD CHARGES] option
This menu option was modified to allow up to 12 copay units to be added
for a patient. Before the maximum limit was 3, given that 90 days supply
corresponded to 3 copay units (1 unit for each 30 days supply)
2. The upper limit for the value allowed for the DAYS SUPPLY field (#.06) in
the IB BILL/CLAIMS PRESCRIPTION REFILL file (#362.4) was changed from 90
(ESM).
to 365 in order to accommodate the new limit for this field in the
Outpatient Pharmacy application.
This project is comprised of patches from five different applications, as
shown below:
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