2022-11-29 Release 134

Features

Quicker Resolution Time for New Generic Medications for Auditing

In Q3 2022, creating new generic and equivalent medications made up ~10% of all Production Support tickets. Internal admin users already have the ability to create a new generic medication from an existing equivalent that has at least one other existing generic medication; but they were not able to create a new equivalent medication that didn’t already exist so they had to ask an engineer for help. The engineer would manually create the new medication in our database so that customers could map their medication identifiers to the new med and start auditing events for it. The availability of medications in our system directly impacts customers abilities to properly audit events in our system. If the med doesn’t exist in our DB, the customer can’t review and audit transactions for it in ControlCheck.

In this release, we are excited to announce that we have eliminated the need for manual engineering intervention and Admin users can now create the new med that is needed in less than 5 mins so that you can get the med mapped and start auditing it. Please continue to reach out to our Support team help@ControlCheck.com for request for new medications. 

Updates to Auto-Med Mapping ?

NDC Modifiers such as DR, ER, ODT, and SL

We noticed that the auto-med mapping logic, currently leveraged by our two beta EDI customers, was not correctly assigning attributes like ER and ODT to equivalent medications. For example, Oxycodone ER is a different equivalent med in our system than regular Oxycodone. In this release, we updated our auto-med mapping logic to evaluate a modifier code for NDCs that is available in Medispan. This will allow us to properly map the ER NDC as an ER equivalent med.

These are the known and supported NDC modifiers available in this release:

1. Delayed Release (DR)
2. Extended Release (ER)
3. Oral Disintegrating Tablet (ODT)
4. Sublingual (SL)

Update to Multi-chemical Drug Name Formats

We noticed an inconsistency with how multi-chemical NDCs were being created and mapped in our system. For example, when auto mapping a new multi-chemical NDC, we grab all of the ingredients from Medispan and sort them alphabetically, then join then with a - to create the med name. We observed that the alphabetical sorting was not case insensitive, so capital Z was being sorted before lowercase a. In this release, we updated that logic to be case insensitive so that we can properly sort and create the med names for multi-chemical NDCs.

For example, NDC 42192060704 returns three ingredients: Brompheniramine Maleate, Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride, Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide. This fix ensures that the ingredients are properly sorted into the name brompheniramine-DEXTROMETHORPHAN-pseudoePHEDrine 2-10-30 MG/5ML with the correct sort on ingredients and concentrations.

Updates & Fixes

• Updated the Audit and Run Report pages to improve the performance of the page when editing an event summary and reloading the page afterwards.
• Fixed an issue with the event grouping logic that was not correctly excluding filtered events when evaluating the strict event type rule. This bug was causing events to not close out that should; specifically cases where there is a preceding admin event within 10 mins of a dispense event that should close out but didn’t due to this bug.
• Fixed an issue with clearing events and other associated data from some pharmacy and universal files.

Upcoming Features & Bug Fixes (next two releases)

Release 135 - Week of 12-13-22

• Bug fixes to address minor issues with the Date Range and Departments filter on the Audit page seen in some workflows.
• Ability to search a user’s name when adding an Investigation Collaborator. The user name list will also now be alphabetized by user’s first names.

Release 136 - Week of 01-03-23

• Our first release of 2023! ?
  • Everything from Audit page performance enhancements to bug fixes ? Check out the future release article for R135 for more info.