Ruth Hugeback Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 How much information must be in the system used to check patient history during a computer downtime? ABO/RhABS statusantibodies / antigensspecial needslast tranfusion dateother?Also - If you use Meditech 5.62, what system do you use to search for patient history when the system is not available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Saikin Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 You should define what is necessary - I would think ABORh, Antibody hx, special needs. Even when conmputerized, we generated pt record cards to have that info available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWNA1983 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 I also use Meditech...I print the Master List every month and keep about 5 years worth. Otherwise, I consult the patients medical record.Dawn L. Arnett, MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricore Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Does your computer system have the ability (or can you build or buy a program) to download the necessary information to a PC in the blood bank? We have Sunquest and we download 3X a day to 9 PCs in various parts of the state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medtech Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 We are Meditech 5.62 Magic. We have a backup history that sends the entire patient history to a PC and we also save to our HIS network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Pepper Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 We are Meditech 5.62 Magic. We have a backup history that sends the entire patient history to a PC and we also save to our HIS network.We have the same thing on C/S 5.55, by far the best feature that an otherwise entirely mediocre system has to offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth Hugeback Posted September 15, 2010 Author Share Posted September 15, 2010 to Medtech & Dr Pepper,Can you tell me a little more about the download to a PC process? Is it automatic or do you go in each day to initiate the process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Pepper Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 It is automaticly downloaded to a free-standing PC, so if Meditech is down it's still available. All data in BBK history is there, plus patient demographics, specimen audit trails and other useful tidbits. It updates and adds any new data every 4 hours, so your backup (downtime) data is never more than 4 hours out of date. We've been up on Meditech for 4 years and did the historical conversion from our previous system (Mysis AKA Sunquest), so we have 15 years worth of data available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrcc1974 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Check out Meditech Knowledge Base Article ID: 21770 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velliott Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 We use Sunquest and download the files, monthly, and print a daily / weekly report, to a zip drive and on a file on a PC. If by chance we can't get to the file on a PC we can use the zip drive on another computer to view the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Eye Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 Any cerner classic user using automatic FHR back up? we have manual process. We need to import data to PC and do not have automatic import set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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