ILD or Sarcoid Outpatient Consults & Requests for Multidisciplinary Conference Review

ILD Outpatient referrals Workflow For APPs and Pulmonary staff : Let your patient know that you are reviewing with our team and that they will be called to schedule with the ILD team or hear from you with next steps. Enter a consult order request for pulmonary à  interstitial lung disease.  Enter whatever details you […]

LEAN clinic updates 5-2019

Posted for Dr. Ouellette from 5/30/2019 email: 1. The Lean Program is a system-wide initiative to improve the health care experience of patients, and the efficacy and safety of selected operations, for all clinics and other health care environments.  A team from the Pulmonary and Critical Care division has been engaged in studying our clinic […]

EPIC Inbox Coverage

Physician   Inbasket coverage assignments Provider Covered by Alternate 2nd Alternate Abu Sayf Thavarajah Bachert Jennings Allenspach Stagner Pinto Hanlon Albujoq Dunn Godfrey Swiderek Lazar Awdish Kelly Hegab Ismail Cohen Debiane Peralta Diaz Simoff Bachert ILD rounder Abu Sayf or Thavarajah Jennings Bradley Ouellette Abu Sayf Thavarajah Debiane Diaz Peralta Cohen Simoff Diaz Peralta Debiane […]

Nebulizer machine for Medicare patients

If providers are ordering nebs for a patient with Medicare in clinic, our recommendation is that they send the order to discharge pharmacy (NOT LOBBY). The order needs to be the appropriate package size for the directions and be associated with the correct diagnostic code (chart to be posted soon). In the ‘notes to pharmacy […]

ILD Inpatient Consults

The EPIC order is called ‘Consult to Interstitial Lung Disease’ (I will see if ‘pulmonary’ can be added to make this easier to find). The order includes text with the devoted pager number (0694).  The pager number will also be included at the end of all of the ILD inpatient notes. If there is any […]

Pathology consults

External pathology for review: 1. Order ‘surgical specimen exam 2. In the history, include the date of the biopsy and “Attn: ___” if you need a specific pathologist to read the slides (contact the pathologist directly to let them know there is path you want to review with him/her).   You can also include a ‘due […]

How to Add Momentum Schedule to iphone

Log in to Momentum under your individual account Click on the ‘?’ in the upper righthand corner. Click on ‘Calendar Integration Instructions’  -> This opens another window with the link to your calendar at the top (There are instructions for other calendars). Copy the link. Email to yourself (outlook or gmail etc  – whatever you […]

DTE medical hold form

The attached form provides patient instructions and the medical form to complete.  The completed medical form is given to the patient, and they can submit (instructions for email and website are included in the forms). medical-emergency-hold-request