KKidd Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I have a giant headache that no tylenol can help. We currently backup our patient medical records each day to a specified PC. It appears that if the patient history has had no recent activity, it does not download. Meditech users - How are you making sure that pertinent patient information is available when the computer is down? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayinsat Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 We use MEDITECH 5.6.4. I download weekley the BLOOD TYPE/AB report. That gives me a complete blood type and antibody/marker/antigen history, overwriting previous info on the file saved the previous week. I usually put my begin date at 11/11/88 and end date today.Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKidd Posted October 12, 2012 Author Share Posted October 12, 2012 I am also on version 5.6.4 but can't locate the Blood Type/AB report in the menus. Where can I find it? If I can get this worked out, you're a lifesaver! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayinsat Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 From my main menu it is: "86: MANAGEMENT REPORTS" and "60: BLOOD TYPE/AB REPORT" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKidd Posted October 12, 2012 Author Share Posted October 12, 2012 My IS person is not here to double check but I can't find this on my screen. Could this be a custom report? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayinsat Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 It could be. My lab LIS coordinator is also off. I'll try to remember to check with her next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dansket Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I have a giant headache that no tylenol can help. We currently backup our patient medical records each day to a specified PC. It appears that if the patient history has had no recent activity, it does not download. Meditech users - How are you making sure that pertinent patient information is available when the computer is down? Thanks!I use the BBK History Backup Status routine to monitor patient history backup. We have it configured to back up to two different PCs in the Blood Bank. These PCs are always powered-on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayinsat Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 My IS person is not here to double check but I can't find this on my screen. Could this be a custom report?It is a custom report for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayinsat Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I use the BBK History Backup Status routine to monitor patient history backup. We have it configured to back up to two different PCs in the Blood Bank. These PCs are always powered-on.I backup our files to my pc and upload it as a .txt doc to our lab portal on our intranet. That way it's on an offsite server and accessible from any network terminal by any authorized user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swede Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I use the BBK History Backup Status routine to monitor patient history backup. We have it configured to back up to two different PCs in the Blood Bank. These PCs are always powered-on.We do the same. We are on Client Server 5.65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whbb Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 We have several practicies that we do to make sure we have information available during a downtime (we actually just had a 2 hour unscheduled downtime today, and our measures we have in place worked great). 1) We download the MEDICAL RECORD CARDS for the previous 365 days to one dedicated PC. We override the report every day to include the last 365 days. Be sure that you call CSS to have your LIS Parameter changed to 365 days for the BBK HIST AUDIT LOG. You are only required to verify the history (blood type) within the previous year.2) If we have any patient with a significant history (antibody, CMV Neg units required), we print one Medical Record Card for that patient, and keep it in a BBK History File notebook. We keep these history notebooks indefinitely. This way, we will still have the history available longer than 365 days.3) We also have scheduled to print daily, the Final disposition list of all products from the previous day. We keep them by the month so if we needed to find a unit, we could. This is a fairly close record of unit disposition.If you have not transfused a patient, and you are looking at their history, you will only see the blood type reported. You will not see any other "activity" from this record other than a transfusion or transfusion reaction workup result. You will not see the results of the specimens performed on this patient here. What do you mean by "recent" history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BankerGirl Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 We use the Meditech History Backup function to back up all our records onto a portable hard drive. This backs up any history modifications hourly, and the hard drive can be plugged into any PC or laptop during downtime, even during a power failure. I also check this at least every week because if the PC is powered down for any reason the backup cannot initiate and will stop after 300 tries (the highest setting possible). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvy1 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 We use the Meditech History Backup function to back up all our records onto a portable hard drive. This backs up any history modifications hourly, and the hard drive can be plugged into any PC or laptop during downtime, even during a power failure. I also check this at least every week because if the PC is powered down for any reason the backup cannot initiate and will stop after 300 tries (the highest setting possible).My IT dept has the history backup running continuously (backing up continuously) to a web based file that is stored both on the local network and on a local PC (in case the network is down as well). It works great as you just need to type in the patient's name and up pops all the history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchie Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 2:29 PM, jayinsat said: It is a custom report for us. Jayinsat, is it possible to know how your custom report is built? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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