Message from
Senior Management

In Search of #1,000
 

John Danahey
Vice President
Sales and Marketing

Benefits of Mobile Phlebotomy

Clinical & Pharmacy Webinars

In Search of #1,000

John Danahey, Vice President - Sales and Marketing

I have been fortunate to be a full-time employee of Iatric Systems for more than twelve years.  Over that time I have witnessed the company reach many milestones.  In the past few years some of our milestones have been recognized via industry awards including 2008 and 2009 Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies, 2009 Healthcare Informatics Top 100 Healthcare IT Companies by Revenue and 2009 Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare.

We are proud of the awards, but there is one metric that I personally track and value; the number of customers we have had the honor of doing business with.  From my perspective each customer is an award and a privilege we should never take for granted.  Every customer that chooses Iatric Systems represents our hard work of the past and our shared goals for the future.

In 2009 we increased our customer count to over 925 hospitals/health systems.  According to our trends this puts the 1,000^th customer on the horizon for 2010.  So will we have a big party and celebrate number 1,000?   I don’t think so.  I think we will celebrate by thanking that customer for the privilege and will treat them just as we did customer #1.  After all, you can only reach milestones one customer at a time. 

For more information please contact Sandy Barbieri at Sandy.Barbieri@iatric.com or
978-805-3196. 

Clinical & Pharmacy Webinars

During the next several months Iatric Systems will be hosting a variety of webinars focusing on Pharmacy and Clinical solutions.  Join us for one of these informative sessions to learn more.

• Improve efficiency and accuracy of documentation in Critical Care areas with MRV Online and Visual FlowSheet Suite

• Assist your staff compliance of patient safety requirements with Patient Safety Management

• Help manage Pharmacy workload and address patient safety with our Pharmacy Solutions

• Implement patient care assessment and documentation with our Visual FlowSheet Suite

• Generate clear, complete discharge instructions with Patient Discharge Instructions (PDI)

Kay Jackson, Marketing Manager - Financial

Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President - NPR Services

MAGIC CDS Attribute tip, show screen, query, and information in Workstation Title Bar

In this month's tip, we show you how to use a routine on a hot key menu to dynamically display screen and query information while you use a CDS in any application.

When you need to write a report or build attributes, you often start by looking at a screen "in action," for example in the Assessment routine in Nursing, and then look at various application dictionaries to determine:

• The name of the screen you are in.
• The mnemonic of the queries of interest
• The data type, length, and group response (if any) of those queries
• If in Nursing, the intervention number

I have various utility reports designed to help with this process, including:

NUR.INT.zcus.is.rw.find.int.by.screen
If you provide the CDS mnemonic, this report will find all interventions with that screen attached.

NUR.INT.zcus.is.rw.find.scr.with.int.for.query
If you provide a query mnemonic, this report will find all CDS's that contain the query which are also attached to a NUR intervention, and will list the interventions as well.

MIS.SCREEN.zcus.is.rw.list.with.grp.resp
A handier listing of CDS information, including such handy items as the query response length, data type, whether it is demo recall, an optional 1x listing of the group response elements and element responses, optional listing of the attributes, optional listing of documentation.

Even with these handy tools (all available in our MAGIC NPR report library), at times it would be even more convenient if you could see this information from within the CDS in the application.

Fortunately the MIS.SCREEN.kernel.process.ee program calls any program loaded into /S.PRE.READ.PGM as the cursor reaches each field.  It is possible to insert your own program and have that program use a Z program to display handy information about the current CDS and query in the title bar.

We want a display like this:

We have a report written in the "Z" dpm with a macro called "show" that contains the following code to show the screen information (macro is %Z.zcus.is.screen.peek.M.show)

There are two ways to get our custom program loaded.  One way is to have an IFE attribute on the very first query of the CDS that calls a macro that saves any MEDITECH /S.PRE.READ.PGM in /SAVED.PRE.READ.PGM and then inserts "Z.zcus.is.screen.peek.M.show" into /S.PRE.READ.PGM.

This is the attribute:

It would be much more convenient if you could somehow load the special program "on the fly" as you need it.

You can do this by attaching a special "load" program to a hot key menu.  Here we have created a macro called Z.zcus.is.screen.peek.M.hot.key and we attach it to any menu as follows:

This program needs to save a disk based file to a custom programming directory in order to manage to access the temporary file of the session before the "hot key."  In this example we assume you have an Iatric directory with the mnemonic EXT.IS. 

Here is the nitty gritty:

From any application, you can go from:

Pick the load program from the hot key menu:

And when you return to the application, the menu bar now shows lots of helpful information:

The reports: NUR.INT.zcus.is.rw.find.int.by.screen, NUR.INT.zcus.is.rw.find.scr.with.int.for.query and MIS.SCREEN.zcus.is.rw.list.with.grp.resp and the "Z" report Z.zcus.is.screen.peek have been added to our MAGIC report library.

You can find additional NPR Tips on our website at http://www.iatric.com/information/npr-tips.asp, as well as information about our on-site NPR Report Writer Training and NPR Report Writing Services.

Follow us on:

Sign up for our Updates! newsletter, or do so by visiting the lower section of our website's homepage.

You can unsubscribe from this newsletter using the SafeUnsubscribe link at the bottom of this email or by sending us a request at info@iatric.com.

If you received this newsletter via email, you may give us feedback by simply replying to the email.  However, if you would like to reach someone directly, please feel free to contact one of the individuals listed below.

Joel Berman, President, Joel.Berman@iatric.com, 978-805-4101
John Danahey, VP, Sales & Marketing, John.Danahey@iatric.com, 978-805-4153

Follow us on our blogs:      
On FOCUS
Patient Privacy Matters

27 Great Pond Drive, Boxford, MA  01921, USA

Copyright 1996-2009 Iatric Systems, Inc.  -All Rights Reserved-