Attention: We will be taking a Cerner update to the mpages/summary pages. The one with the most impact will be the Pregnancy Summary page. It will be replaced with the Pregnancy Workflow mpage. All impacted providers should have received via email, both a handout and a video tutorial.
Please contact your HELP desk if you require further assistance. See the video and attached tutorial if needed.
Coming March 14, 2017...
Discharge Med Reconciliation Changes: In an effort to reduce medication errors during the discharge med reconciliation process, Use and Standards voted to remove the medication defaults and add two buttons for “Continue Remaining Home Meds” and “Do Not Continue Remaining Orders.” This will help protect providers who discharge patients from making inadvertent medication errors involving duplicate therapies due to the medication defaults.
Use and Standards Decision: Remove all defaults. Add a button for “Continue Remaining Home Meds” and a button for “Do Not Continue Remaining Orders.”
First, the provider should address all meds that specifically need to be continued, prescribed or discontinued after discharge.
When Continue Remaining Home Meds button is clicked, documented home meds and prescriptions change to Continue with a status of ‘Documented’ or ‘Prescribed’. Any changes that were already made will persist.
When the Do Not Continue Remaining Orders button is clicked, all inpatient and home medication orders that have not been addressed will be marked as Do Not Continue.
A Powerchart Touch Inpatient issues has been corrected; to have the progress notes show face up now. It used to say “no notes in the last 72 hours” and and you previously would have to tap on “more” to look for the notes. They now show on the initial review screen.
UMC, UMCP (formerly PNS), and TTP held their first major provider fair on March 7th. Well over 100 faculty, residents, non-physician providers, and students attended. Overall, the feedback was positive and we received many requests for repeat fairs in the future.
"I really loved the 'combined team' approach. This is how IT should be." - UMC provider
What did you think? Did you get to go to the fair? What booths did you find most helpful? What would you like to see at future fairs?
