Automating the pharmacy: implementing Cerner´s Millenium Pharmnet System

Author

Unfricht, D. ; Enderle, John

Author_Institution

Connecticut Univ., CT, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

60

Abstract

Cerner´s Health Network Architecture (HNA) Millenium Pharmnet System was recently implemented at Metro Health Systems of Cleveland. This cutting-edge pharmacy management system has only been installed, with limited functionality, at one site in Canada: this was the first time it was installed in an American medical institution as well as employing the billing capability of the software. In order for this software to be successful, the entire Cerner HNA Millenium system had to be designed, installed, and maintained properly. The HNA Millenium system includes four distinct pieces: the front-end PC applications, the Cerner executables that access the Oracle relational database, the Oracle relational database itself, and the OpenVMS operating system and disks. The system began handling live pharmacy orders (conversion) in November of 1999 and is currently fully operational

Keywords

client-server systems; invoicing; medical administrative data processing; open systems; operating systems (computers); relational databases; Cerner executables; Cerner´s Health Network Architecture; Millenium Pharmnet System; OpenVMS operating system; Oracle relational database; billing capability; client-server architecture; front-end PC applications; middleware; pharmacy automation; pharmacy management system; Biomedical engineering; Engineering management; File servers; Graphical user interfaces; Hospitals; Middleware; Network servers; Operating systems; Relational databases; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering Conference, 2000. Proceedings of the IEEE 26th Annual Northeast

Conference_Location

Storrs, CT

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6341-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEBC.2000.842378

Filename

842378