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MEDITECH Pharmacy ( PHA ) Rules & Line Checks

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I was working with a friend on a MEDITECH PHA rule today when it hit me. Pharmacy Rules and NPR Line Checks are very similiar.

You can use a Line Check (LC) to print or not print a report line. But LCs are often used to just run a macro or a piece of code and still print the report line. When the LC returns NIL as "", the line will not print. Any value other than NIL "" will allow it to print. Typically programmers return 1 to allow the line to print.

Often the LC will look like this when you just want to run some code, and have the line print:

LC=%APP.DPM.zcus.report.name.M.macro.name(""),1

A PHA rule can be used in the same way when you don't actually want to run the rule in a traditional sense. If your rule uses a keyword that runs code or a macro it must evaluate to a non-nil value for the drug order to go thru. If you just want to run some code and not affect the outcome of the order; then end your code with ,1 which returns the non-nil value. As you can see this is very similiar to the LC example from NPR above.

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