| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
1. With the release of the Pharmacy Ordering Enhancement patch (POE),
reduced from 100 to 90. The correction to the software is that the quantity
for all renewals will not be calculated, but use the quantity already
entered for the prescription being renewed.
2. The prescription editing functionality that allows prescriptions to be
edited has been enhanced to process all fields selected for editing and
verify that the edits do not cause a new prescription (order) to be created
before updating the PRESCRIPTION file (#52) and CPRS ORDERS file (#100).
Currently the software will update the prescription being edited and the
changes to the new prescription.
functionality was added to compute the quantity for prescriptions for
3. An additional order check was added when entering backdoor prescriptions
and finishing prescriptions entered by the provider. If maximum dispense
units per day is entered in the MAXIMUM DOSE PER DAY field (#4), in the DRUG
file (#50) it is used as an order check when the day supply is entered for
backdoor prescriptions. The problem is that the order check is not done
when the quantity is entered or when finishing orders entered using CPRS.
This patch now checks for maximum dispense units per day when the quantity
is entered through Backdoor Outpatient Pharmacy and when finishing
prescriptions entered by a provider.
possible dosages. During the testing phase for POE the computation of
4. When entering prescriptions using the Outpatient Pharmacy package or the
Computerize Patient Record System (CPRS) for schedule 2 through 5 drugs the
maximum number of refills of 5 was being allowed. A problem was discovered
that schedule 2 drugs should not allow any refills. This patch corrects
this problem.
5. When finishing orders from the Computerize Patient Record System (CPRS)
that have a dosage greater than 60 characters, pharmacy cannot finish those
orders without editing the dosage down to 60 characters or less. When the
quantity for CMOP prescriptions was not identified as being a problem. The
dosage was edited the software was getting into a loop, which prevented the
edited order from being accepted. This patch corrects this problem.
6. When entering a backdoor order and an up-arrow is entered in the Route
field, the order entry process should abort but does not, which causes an
undefined error. This patch corrects this.
7. It appears that when a pharmacist is finishing orders and one is for a
possible dose, which would have units in parenthesis, and the second order
is for a local possible dosage, the units pointer variable is not killed
problem for the CMOP prescription happens when, for instance a prescription
from the previous order and is displaying on the screen, but is not added
to the order.
has a medication instruction that states to "TAKE 1 TABLET FOR 90 DAYS".
For non-CMOP prescriptions a quantity of 90 tablets would normally be
dispensed, but for CMOP prescriptions the quantity often times should be a
quantity of 100. When the CMOP prescriptions are renewed the quantity is
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