| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
The Pharmacy Ordering Enhancements (POE) project provides enhancements
Outpatient Pharmacy applications. This project directly supports
Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), which is a key component of
Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) plan to expand support for clinical
operations. Additionally, order checks will be provided for medication orders
for which a dispense drug has not been selected during the CPRS order entry
process. It is also intended as a way to help meet the goal outlined in Objective
8, Action 1 in the Prescription for Change, which outlines the need to
coordinate national/Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) formularies
and share drug treatment guideline information. This project will promote
system- wide sharing of drug reviews and treatment guidelines thereby
to Pharmacy Data Management (PDM) V. 1.0, Inpatient Medications V. 5.0,
enhancing patient safety.
This project consists of four patches that work together to accomplish these
goals listed in order of install:
PSO*7*46
OR*3*94
PSS*1*38
PSJ*5*50
Outpatient Pharmacy V. 7.0, and Order Entry/Results Reporting (OE/RR)
V. 3.0 medication ordering dialogues to eliminate redundant entry of drug
information during medication order entry, provide a more consistent
medication order entry process, provide expanded order checking, display
documented drug formulary statuses and corresponding restriction/guidelines
to the provider and pharmacist at the time of order entry, and improve the
process of medication order transfer between Inpatient Medications and
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