[Mediware HCLL Version 4.7.0]

Are you already Epic/Beaker and adding Mediware or the other way around? We currently have that combination (Epic/Beaker in May 2013 and added Mediware in Oct. 2013). We are affilliated with a larger organization and are what they call "community conect". This is usually used for clinic add-ons, but we are a 100 bed hospital with an extensive outreach service and a Cancer Center so we have a large test menu. So we are the first community connect (maintained on an external server) of this size for this organization and therefore have had numerous problems.We have been extremely frustrated with the Epic/Beaker portion as we do not  have any control over the build and it is not being customized for us but 'standardized' for the larger organization which does not fit our needs and in many ways seems to be a reduction in quality of care.

As far as Mediware interface:

Biggest problems are that reflex testing fails so we have to add/replicate additional testing.

Comments are limited in character size and only one comment will cross without failure.

All specimens must be received in Beaker before they cross into Mediware.

Updating the physician database in the Mediware configurator to prevent ADT failures is on-going daily process (due to our large organization affiliation).

System is designed for physician ordering of all blood products and physicians are hard to train (different processes for scheduled outpatient transfusions (Cancer Center patients) vs inpatient transfusion ordering.

Hope this helps. Nancy

Thank you for the information, Nancy.  I circled back with some folks at Providence and wanted to clarify a couple of items.

 

Comments are limited in character size and only one comment will cross without failure.

While the comments are limited to 250 characters, multiple comments can be sent/received on a result or order message.  This is dependent on how the interface configuration and comment profile is set-up in Epic.

 

All specimens must be received in Beaker before they cross into Mediware.

As with most focused blood bank solutions, Specimens pass through the lab system for greater specimen management before they are sent to the blood bank application.  Once the lab tech barcode scans the specimen and receives it in beaker, the specimen should be auto-packed to a packing list and sent to HCLL as a one-click process.

 

Updating the physician database in the Mediware configurator to prevent ADT failures is on-going daily process (due to our large organization affiliation).

HCLL offers a feature to add physicians on the fly to the physician code table from the ORM order message (version 2013 and higher).  Previously, when the MFN feed was the primary source of physicians, the HIS only sent updates nightly, so if a new physician was placing orders/admitting patients before the updated MFN feed was received, then there would be errors.  However, with the ORM order message, this item should be addressed.

 

Thanks!

[Mediware HCLL Version 4.7.0]

Question:  Would any Mediware users in NC, SC, or GA please respond?  I would very much like to see how this system works and compare against our current BB software to see if it would be worth attempting to get a new system in the next 5 years.  Thanks! 

I'd be happy to try to assist in a site visit to evaluate HCLL - please feel free to reach me at aaron.winkelmann@mediware.com.

[Tissue tracking software vendor list]

We are in the process of updating our website and product collateral to address our new offering for tissue markets. Our Transtem Lab 2014 application will provide management for fresh and manufactured tissue products supporting clinical and research operations.  Transtem will track receipt, categorization, manipulation, release and implantation of product and post-procedure outcomes.  Transtem will meet the requirement to manage chain of custody and proper identification of the product. 

 

Please contact me at the points provided above and I’ll be happy to coordinate a quick call to discuss your organization’s needs in a system and answer any additional questions you may have.

[Tissue tracking software vendor list]

Meet all of the JC requirements for tissues--tracking from pkg integrity right off the loading dock all the way to implant. Implant information on the patient with all the lot numbers of saline etc. used to prepare it. Report back to supplier and also inventory management so you can tell what you have and what is expiring. Certificates from all the suppliers filed in it would be good. Automatic download of them would be better. Barcodes for all the tissues for ease of tracking when a tissue moves to a different storage area. Some of them even have a space to record daily temps. That's all I can come up with from memory.

 

Hi Mabel,

 

Mediware offers a system called Transtem that provides functionality for tracking products from receipt to implant.  This includes the use of barcode scanning throughout the process, inventory management and comprehensive management of equipment and consumables.  If you'd like to discuss the system, or a possible demonstration, please feel free to reach me at my contact points provided below.

 

Aaron

(402) 261-9299

aaron.winkelmann@mediware.com

[surgery blood bank refrigerator]

Since Mediware was brought up, I will confirm that we do offer secured, remote storage, refrigerators that can be integrated with the HCLL transfusion system or operated on a stand-alone basis. The security of the blood enables these units to be utilized outside the blood bank; a number of options are available which I’d be happy to discuss more offline. These range from a large ‘vending machine’, to a nine drawer, to mini fridges – all of which are computer controlled. We can even add an electronic lock to an existing refrigerator so that access is limited to only those people with the proper credentials (ID badge and PIN entry if needed).

As others have mentioned, more information is available at our website: http://www.mediware.com/index.php/Remote-Storage/. I also have a couple of white papers on other customers I can share with you, including one on OHSU who recently reported that the system helped reduce their CT ratio from 3.1 to 1.2. If you are interested, feel free to reach me at aaron.winkelmann@mediware.com.