| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
This patch adds the capability of doing order checking between local VA
to occur. When turned on, the remote order checking includes checks for
duplicate drugs, duplicate drug classes, drug interactions, and drug
allergies.
In addition to the new functionality, there are several help desk tickets
related to erroneous drug interactions with non-VA meds. The problem
and fix have been identified as a variable being carried over from prior
drug checks that should have been killed in between. Because the routine
that needs to be fixed is already being changed as part of the RDI
project, the change to kill the variable at the end of the interaction
facilities and remote VA or Department of Defense (DoD) facilities where
checking will be included in this RDI patch.
veterans have received prescriptions. This Remote Data Interoperability
(RDI) functionality includes receiving data from the Health Data
Repository (HDR) in order to perform the order checking against remote
data.
After the release of this patch, a Computerized Patient Record System
(CPRS) patch will turn on a flag which enables the remote order checking
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