| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
This is the Phase I patch of the Transitional Pharmacy Benefit Project
1) The patient must be a veteran.
(3) Documentation can also be retrieved from VISTA Documentation Library
(VDL) on the Internet at the following address,
http://www.domain.ext/vdl.
2) The veteran must be enrolled for VA health care system before
July 25, 2003.
3) Before July 25,2003, the veteran must have requested their first
primary care appointment with the VA.
4) The veteran must have no active prescriptions dispensed by the local
VHA pharmacy, excluding Supply and Investigational items, for the past
(TPB). This project provides functionality for the "Medication Prescribed
485 days from October 22, 2003.
5) The veteran must be waiting more than 30 days for their first
appointment with a Primary Care Physician on or after October 22,
2003, or the veteran is deemed eligible via an Electronic Wait
List/Scheduling extract run at each local site.
This patch is being sent out as a combined build, along with patch
by Non-VA Physicians" to accommodate the Veterans Health Administration
SD*5.3*300.
Outpatient Pharmacy will provide the following functionality in this
patch:
1. A Post-Install routine will scan through the PATIENT file (#2)
and the SD WAIT LIST file (#409.3), and will populate the new Outpatient
Pharmacy TPB ELIGIBILITY file (#52.91) with patients eligible for the
Transitional Pharmacy Benefit. Patients will either be entered into the
(VHA) Directive 2003-047 that allows Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
file as eligible, or ineligible. If they are entered into the file as
ineligible, an exclusion reason will also be entered into the file. Please
refer to the documentation for more details.
The average run time of the Post-Install at the test sites was 1 hour.
2. The following new options are provided in this patch:
a. A new report option, TPB Patient Report [PSO TPB PATIENT REPORT],
will be provided to display the patients in the TPB ELIGIBILITY file
to furnish medications from non-VA physicians. It mandates that for
(#52.91). Various sort criteria are provided.
b. The Transitional Pharmacy Benefit Patient Enter/Edit [PSO TPB
PATIENT ENTER/EDIT] option will allow sites to add new patients, and
edit existing patients. Note: This option will be set initially to
"Out of Order", until the post-install runs to completion.
c. The TPB Institution Letter Enter/Edit [PSO TPB INSTITUTION LETTERS]
option allows the user to edit each TPB institution's information
elements that are to be printed on the letters to be sent to the
patients.
d. The Report TPB Patients Letters Printed/NOT Printed [PSO TPB LETTERS
eligible veterans that meet certain criteria, VHA will fill prescriptions
PRINTED REPORT] option provides the user the ability to generate a
report of patients' letters printed or not printed.
e. The Print TPB Patient Letter(s) [PSO TPB PRINT LETTERS] option
provides the ability to print TPB letters to be sent to patients.
KIDS Build and Documentation Retrieval:
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The KIDS Build and VISTA documentation are available on the
written by non-VA physicians and dentists. To determine eligibility, a
ANONYMOUS.SOFTWARE directory at one of the following Office of Information
(OI) Field Offices.
Sites may retrieve documentation in one of the following ways:
(1) The preferred method is to FTP the files from
download.vista.domain.ext, which will transmit the files from the
first available FTP server.
patient must meet the following criteria:
(2) Sites may also elect to retrieve documentation directly from a
specific server as follows:
Albany ftp.fo-albany.domain.ext
Hines ftp.fo-hines.domain.ext
Salt Lake City ftp.fo-slc.domain.ext
The software distribution includes:
FILE NAMES DESCRIPTION
PSO_TPB_ELIGIBILITY_1_0.KID KIDS Build
PSO_7_P145_IG.PDF Installation Guide
PSO_7_UM_R0803.PDF User Manual
PSO_7_P145_UM_CP.PDF User Manual Change Page Document
PSO_7_TM_R0803.PDF Technical Manual
PSO_7_P145_TM_CP.PDF Technical Manual Change Page Document
PSO_7_P145_RN.PDF Release Notes
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