EmmalynnE

Thank you everyone. It's a relief to know other facilities are still using this program. I will forward to my IT department and hopefully this is an easy task to accomplish.

When Meditech 5.67 is experiencing a downtime event, how do you make patient records accessible for techs to perform record checks? The NJ state requirements are - "Before blood is issued for transfusion, test results for each recipient sample shall be compared with the following: 1. Past records of previous ABO and Rh typing results for the past 12 months; and 2. Past records of all patients known to have significant unexpected antibodies; severe adverse reactions to transfusion, and/or difficulty in blood typing." If computers are used, an alternate method shall be available and used which allows access to the information required in above in the case of computer failure. We currently have a separate downtime reporting system that contains the last 5days of lab results for inpatients and the last 2 days of lab results for ED patients. Results are updated every 30 minutes. I keep binders with patient antibody panel workups, transfusion reactions, and abo/rh discrepancy worksheets. Is there a way to download/backup the Meditech BBK history file on to a downtime computer on a weekly/monthly schedule? How do you handle your LIS downtime in this case?