2023-07-05 Release 149

Features 

Related Events Enhanced to Include Events at the Equivalent Medication Level 

ControlCheck just got even better with our latest release update! We've enhanced the Related Events feature to include all events under the same equivalent medication by default. This means the Related Events panel will now display all events a patient received for the same equivalent in a 24-hour timeframe.

For example, let's say a patient received an injectable and oral liquid of the same drug in the same day. The Related Events panel would now show both generic drugs on the default view. Users can still click the Show All Medications toggle to expand the view to include all related events for the patient across all drugs they received in the 24-hour timeframe.

This update is particularly exciting for the "injectifusion" scenarios we see for patients receiving compounded continuous infusions. A common practice in patient care workflows, especially in pediatric settings, is to use a drug vial to compound a continuous infusion for a patient in the size that they need. This creates a problem in ControlCheck because the dispense is pulled against a vial mapped as an Injectable and the admin is documented against a New Bag on an Infusion med, so the two events do not automatically group and reconcile in the auditing workflow.

This enhancement allows auditors to easily see both events for the continuous infusion case to ensure the drug was documented at the patient's bedside. In a future release, select users will be able to leverage Event Editor to group these events and manually out them on the same summary so that they can auto resolve and the provider is not attributed a false variance due to this known limitation in ControlCheck.

We're thrilled to offer this update to our customers and continue to improve our Medication Intelligence solutions. At Bluesight, we're always looking for ways to streamline processes and provide the best possible experience for our users. Stay tuned for more exciting updates from ControlCheck, as we continue to work towards our goal of providing a comprehensive diversion management solution that saves you time, reduces errors, and helps you to provide better patient care.

Automatic Med Mapping is Enabled for All Hospitals 

We are thrilled to announce that the Automatic NDC Med Mapping feature is now officially live for all ControlCheck customers! This cool feature automatically maps your single-chemical NDCs that ControlCheck receives from your Wholesaler Invoice data, saving you time and effort.

For new EDI Pharmacy Module customers who have seen an increase in unmapped medications, particularly non-controlled ones, this update will reduce or almost eliminate the need to continue to manually map those NDCs. ControlCheck will now do it for you!

When ControlCheck processes an invoice for an NDC it hasn't seen in your data yet, it automatically kicks off a process to map that drug for you, so you don't have to! We ping Medispan to learn the form factor, concentration, package size, multi-chemical status, and control code of the NDC to create the right medication in your ControlCheck Formulary. Even if an NDC is not classified as a controlled substance in Medispan, ControlCheck will still auto map the NDC for you and set it to be Not Audited, making it very easy to enable a particular non-controlled drug for auditing if the need arises.

While there are some known limitations to this feature, such as multi-chemical NDCs, injectable and continuous infusion products, and patches, we see these as opportunities to continue closing gaps in the problem space. The feature only maps NDCs at this time, not a hospital’s source system medication identifiers. Items with invalid or fake NDCs will not be eligible for auto-mapping and will continue to populate in the Unmapped Medications queue for manual mapping.

New Beta Features Coming Soon! 

We’re still under construction and actively working to bring you two awesome new features! Below are the latest updates for Variance Categories and Event Editor released to our testing environment in preparation for Beta Launch.

Variance Categories

• Ability to create Categories for an entire Health System from one hospital without needing to manually create the category in each hospital in an IDN.
• Added the ability to close an event summary with a Variance Category on the Audit and Run Report pages.
• Ability to edit, remove, and change the Variance Category on an event summary.
• Ability to exclude events under a certain Variance Category from the Variance Trends IRIS report.

Event Editor

• Added the ability to regroup events across multiple generic drugs under the same equivalent drug (e.g. the ability to group a fentanyl Inj event with a fentanyl Infusion event).

Updates & Fixes 

• Fixed an issue with pending patient events not being properly released for processing when an unmapped med that was holding it up gets mapped or ignored.
• Released a hot-fix for an issue with some events being filtered as duplicates that were not duplicates.

Upcoming Features & Bug Fixes (next release) 

Release Naloxone (150) – Week of 07-15-23

• Gearing up for Variance Categories and Event Editor beta programs!
• A bug fix to address an issue with correctly parsing provider names that have “Do” as a first or last name value.