| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
This patch contains software modifications to the Consolidated Mail
. Certain information is necessary to prevent serious adverse effects
. Patient decision-making should be advised by information about a known
serious side effect with a product, or
. Patient adherence to directions for the use of a product is essential
to its effectiveness.
The features in the FDA Medication Guides project are being delivered in
incremental releases. This patch is part of the Increment 3 release, which
is the last planned release. The features included in this release are:
Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) V. 2.0 application to support the Food and Drug
. Ability to create and maintain a list of FDA Medication Guide printers
for a specific pharmacy division.
. Automatic printing of FDA Medication Guide along with prescription
labels.
. Ability to reprint the FDA Medication Guide when reprinting a
prescription label.
. Ability to change the FDA Medication Guide printer at any point in the
Administration (FDA) Medication Guides - Increment 3 project. The project
dispensing process, similar to changing the label printer.
. Ability to reprint the FDA Medication Guide for any given prescription
fill or the latest FDA Mediation Guide available for the medication on
the prescription.
. Identification on the label document that an FDA Medication Guide was
printed as well and needs to be collated to the documentation before
being handed over to the patient.
objective is to allow pharmacy staff to retrieve the FDA Medication Guide
. Changes to the prescription label activity logs showing which specific
FDA Medication Guide document printed along with the label.
. Changes to the Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) Event log
showing which specific FDA Medication Guide document was available
for the medication when the prescription fill was transmitted to CMOP.
. Introduction of a PC based Java software component to enable the
automatic printing of an FDA Medication Guide from within VistA. The
software does not require any direct user interaction. The software
for prescription items that contain FDA approved information that can help
identifies a request from VistA for a specific FDA Medication Guide
and automatically sends it to the FDA Medication Guide printer
selected by the user within VistA when dispensing the medication.
. Ability to update the Windows network printer name for a specific
device through the Kernel application. Once the pharmacist selects a
printer to print the FDA Medication Guide Vista will retrieve the
Windows name for the printer and will pass it on to the Java
application responsible for printing the document.
patients avoid adverse events. The FDA requires that Medication Guides be
Below is a list of all the applications involved in this release along
with their patch number:
APPLICATION/VERSION PATCH
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CONSOLIDATED MAIL OUTPATIENT PHARMACY (CMOP) V. 4.0 PSX*2*70
NATIONAL DRUG FILE (NDF) V. 4.0 PSN*4*264
OUTPATIENT PHARMACY (OP) V. 7.0 PSO*7*367
KERNEL V. 8.0 XU*8*566
included with certain prescribed drugs and biological products when the
The following modification is included in this patch (PSX*2*70):
The process responsible for the transmission of prescriptions from Outpatient
Pharmacy to CMOP will be modified to record the current FDA Medication Guide
document name in the CMOP Event Log in the PRESCRIPTION file (#52) if one
exists for the medication in the prescription being transmitted. Such
information will be displayed within Outpatient Pharmacy application when the
user selects to view the CMOP Event Log for a specific prescription.
Agency determines that:
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