Automating the pharmacy: implementing Cerner's millenium Pharmnet system

摘要

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.