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The following information is also important when working with imported medications:

 

•For clinic patients only, when importing a new prescription with a SIG/Directions line from Clinical Information Reconciliation, the system will default the dose, unit and route on the Imported Medication Edit screen based off of Truven data. If the imported medication has a dose/unit/route description that does not match one of the values in the site's Prescription Units Table, the system will resort to the default dose/unit/route. If there is no default unit, then the dose/unit/route will be blank.

•When reconciling a medication where the RxNorm or NDC code does not exist in the Micromedex database, a custom home medication will be created in all CAPS.

•The source label that imports with medications from Clinical Information Reconciliation to Medication Reconciliation will carry forward to Prescription Entry when an imported home medication is continued on a discharge Medication Reconciliation which, in turn, will cause it to pull forward to the next visit. Furthermore, when selecting a Non-Formulary medication during a discharge Medication Reconciliation, the system will direct users to the Prescription Entry application with the new medication instead of a medication edit screen.

•After performing a Clinical Reconciliation for imported medications, although not displayed in Clinical Information Reconciliation, pharmacy data regarding the last pharmacy that filled the prescription will be imported and will populate in the Pharmacy field and the prescriber's name will populate the Physician field in Medication Reconciliation and Prescription Entry. Furthermore, any information in the SIG/Directions line will also be imported through Clinical Information Reconciliation and will populate the Prescription Detail field in the Home Medication Edit screen in Medication Reconciliation. Please see the Medication Reconciliation User Guide and the Prescription Entry User Guide for more information regarding these applications.