Pharmacy
MEDITECH's Pharmacy software helps pharmacists process orders, check drug interactions, maintain inventory levels, check lab test results, create order rules, and comply with government regulations more efficiently and effectively. User-defined order rule
s within the application allow your organization to customize the Pharmacy application. The module automatically:
- Maintains accurate, on-line patient profiles
- Checks for drug and allergy interactions
- Prints hospital-defined labels and med administration records
- Updates inventory levels and schedules refills
- Calculates the dose(s) to be dispensed, IV drip rates, patient charges, and body surface area (based on height, weight)
- Generates drug utilization, revenue and workload statistics
- Tracks clinical interventions
- Generates management reports on-demand
- Accommodates inventory control for multiple facilities
- Automates drug administration and provides an on-line history
- Reports recent lab results when a pharmacist or technician enters a medication order
- Allows flexible order entry.
The Pharmacy Module allows pharmacists to:
- Prevent medication errors
- Maintain proper inventory levels
- Comply with Controlled Substance regulations
- Speed the billing process and virtually eliminate lost patient charges
- Reduce the time between order receipt and dispensing
- Facilitate better departmental planning
- Access lab information to assist in clinical decision making
- Choose from multiple order pathways for quick order entry.
Used in combination with MEDITECH's Microbiology software, the Pharmacy application can provide an Antibiotic/Microbiology Report that points out any antibiotics currently prescribed to patients which are resistant to identified organisms. Linked to the M
aterials Management application, the Pharmacy software helps an organization track expenses and inventory more closely.
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