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R.Ph

Registered Pharmacist

RAR

Resource Adapter Archive

Rational ClearCase

A tool developed by IBM to control and manage versions of elements such as source files for software and documentation, directories, reports, etc.

Rational ClearQuest

A tool developed by IBM to submit and track change requests, gather project matrices, and generate defect summary reports.

Rational RequisitePro

A tool developed by IBM to organize, prioritize, track, and control changing requirements of a system or application.

Rational Software Architect

A tool developed by IBM to model the system components and their interactions.

RBAC

Role-Based Access Control

RDBMS

Relational Database Management System

RDV

Remote Data View

Re-engineering

The fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to bring about dramatic improvements in performance (Re-engineering The Corporation, Michael Hammer, James Champy, 1993). It is concerned with the redesign of work so that it can be performed in a more superior way. The application of re-engineering principles has since been extended to processes outside and between organizations to address total enterprise relationships (X-engineering The Corporation, James Champy, 2002).

Read-back

This is a JCAHO requirement for verbal orders (i.e., orders communicated by face-to-face contact). A verbal order must be read back to the ordering medical staff member by the Pharmacist to verify the verbal order was correctly heard and understood. A licensed Practitioner will be required to sign the verbal order within 24 hours from the time the verbal order was given.

Recall Class

Three different levels of pharmacy action depending on the severity of the problem causing the recall. A Class 1 recall is the most severe, requiring notification of Patients who have received the medication.

Receiver

An authorized person who receives supplies from Vendor(s) and places them into the pharmacy’s inventory system (e.g., Procurement Specialist).

REE

Registration/Enrollment/Eligibility

Refill

To fill a prescription a second or subsequent time.

Refrigeration

A VA Data Field used to specify whether an item requires refrigeration.

Renew

Continuation of an existing order by an authorized user (e.g., provider). For Outpatient orders, the renew action creates a new order with a new prescription number and a new expiration date. For Inpatient orders, renew action does not create a new order. In Inpatient renew, a new Default Stop Date/Time is calculated for the existing order.

Renewal

A new order that was generated by the renew process. See glossary term Renew.

Reorder Amount

The quantity of an item to be ordered from the replenishment source when a Reorder signal is sent. It is triggered by the status of the inventory control factors, usually when the quantity remaining reaches the reorder point.

Reorder Point

The quantity level at which the reorder signal is sent.

Reorder Signal

A notification within the system that there is an inventory quantity that has fallen below the Reorder Point. This is used by the system to generate an internal replenishment order and in formulating Vendor supply orders.

Replenisher

Any authorized person who identifies the need for, and replenishes, internal inventory stock (e.g., Pharmacy Technician).

Replenishment

The inventory items used to restock user area locations (e.g., ward stock, automated dispensing devices) without being tied to a Patient order. These tend to be commonly used items stored for easy access at quantity levels required for Patient safety and work process flow. Quantities are debited from pharmacy supply locations but are still carried in inventory as unallocated. The item location changes from pharmacy supply to user area. Usage from the user area debits inventory from that area. See related glossary term Dispensed Inventory.

Request

A user action that a PEPS Item (OI, Product Item, or NDC Item) addition or modification be considered by the PNM for updates within the PEPS enterprise database.

Requirement

A criterion that a system or software must meet. It can include things the system must do, characteristics it must have, and levels of performance it must attain. Systems engineers develop them before a system is created. As it is developed, the system is evaluated according to how well it meets its criterion. Requirements may be business, functional, and/or system needs. They are documented in detail in the System Requirements Specification document.

Requirements Management Plan (RMP)

A document that describes the requirements artifacts, requirement types, and their respective requirement attributes. This artifact contains information to be collected and control mechanisms to be used for measuring, reporting, and managing changes to the product requirements.

Residual Effect of a Drug

The remains of a medication or its active metabolites in the Patient’s system after the medication is taken or administered. The length of activity will depend on various factors (e.g., the drug, the Patient’s ability to eliminate the medication).

Restricted Medication

The medications that are only allowed to be prescribed based on a set of criteria, such as only being allowed if the Patient is diagnosed with a particular problem, or has lab values of a certain type and level. Medications become restricted due to a number of reasons, the primary ones being abuse potential, cost, or risk to the Patient.

Restricted Refill

A refill that is tied to certain policies established by the pharmacy and will require certain actions by the Orderer (e.g., review updated lab values) prior to sending the restricted refill to be dispensed.

Return on Investment (ROI)

The rate of return which is used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment; typically expressed as a percentage.

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

RIM

Reference Information Model

Risks

The events or circumstances that may happen that could jeopardize the outcome of the project, such as cost overruns, schedule delays or project cancellation. Risks can also be events that may happen that could allow the project to complete ahead of schedule or run more efficiently.

RMI

Remote Method Invocation

RMP

Requirements Management Plan

ROI

Return on Investment

Route of Administration

Specifies the method by which the drug is to be administered.

RPC

Remote Procedure Call

RSA

Replacement Scheduling Application

Rx

Prescription

Rx Consult Domain

Holds the expansion of the number codes that represent the additional warnings/consultations that may be needed for a particular drug.

Rx Norm

A clinical drug nomenclature produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), in consultation with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the VA, and the HL7 standards development organization. It provides standard names for clinical drugs (active ingredient + strength + dose form) and for dose forms as administered. It provides links from clinical drugs to their active ingredients, drug components (active ingredient + strength), and some related brand names. To the extent available from the Food and Drug Administration, NDCs (National Drug Codes) for specific drug products that deliver the clinical drug are stored as attributes of the clinical drug in RxNorm.



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