Introduction
The Kit Check system makes attempts to standardize the ways drugs are defined and represented in our system. This makes the whole system work better, including simplified reporting for the hospital across drugs from various manufacturers and uniform views of drug-related information on all workflow screens. Additionally, when tagging items in Kit Check, it is generally a requirement that the drug dictionary and formulary entries exist in Kit Check prior to creating any tags or tag batches.
We standardize this information with two related mechanisms:
Drug Dictionary
The first is the drug dictionary which provides a system-wide definition of each item. A drug dictionary entry includes fields like NDC, manufacturer, drug name, concentration, etc. All customers and hospital see the same dictionary entry for a given NDC.
Formulary
The second is the formulary. This is a hospital-level construct which builds off the formulary and gives each hospital the ability to define certain customizations related to a dictionary item. A formulary entry includes fields like display name and refrigeration/multi-dose days. Each customer or hospital sees on the formulary entries that they’ve created.
Drug Dictionary Types
Medi-Span
Kit Check licenses the US & Canadian drug dictionaries from Medi-Span and makes one of them available to each customer depending on the customer’s locale. This covers most drugs that the hospital will encounter on a day-to-day basis. For manufacturers who syndicate their drug information to Medi-Span, generally no additional steps are necessary to prep their items and tags Kit Check.
Manufacturer Catalog
For manufacturers who do not syndicate to Medi-Span, Kit Check allows the creation of manufacturer-specific catalogs in our Global drug dictionary.
To facilitate the management of these catalogs, we offer an API through which manufacturers can submit new and updated drug dictionary information.
APIs
Kit Check has API support for manufacturers to create drug dictionary entries in their manufacturer catalog.