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04/27/2021 aa PharmNET: Odd Warning At Verification of Discontinue
April 28, 2021

From: "Aaron Atkins" <aaron.atkins@hhsys.org>
To: "Pharmacists" <grp_allpharm@hhsys.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 2:04:01 PM
Subject: PharmNET: Odd Warning At Verification of Discontinue

If you are verifying in Cerner and the following prompt appears, please cancel out of the verification process and review all aspects of the order before completing the verification.  There are some circumstances where this prompt is a warning that certain elements of the order are not ‘retained’ when verifying (ex. Stop Date/Time).

We have opened a ticket with Cerner to work on a solution to this defect.  We are able to replicate this using a unique workflow shown below, which should be relatively rare:

Circumstances to replicate:

1. Enter a non-IV Set Antibiotic medication flagged for verification at discontinuation (ex. Vancomycin 1500 mg IVPB) directly into PharmNET.
2. Discontinue the order in Powerchart with a future date and a time that is after the current time. (Ex. if it is NOON and the future discontinue time is prior to NOON, then this does not occur, but if it is set for after NOON, then it will)
3. Verify the discontinuation in PharmNET.  You will be presented with the above prompt and the discontinue date/time as well as the Antibiotic Reason will not be retained.  These will need to be re-entered.