Changes to Radiology Order Display Names in Epic

Beginning Wednesday, October 8, radiology procedure order display names will appear differently in Epi The most effective method to find an imaging procedure in Epic beginning October 8 is to use the following standardized order: OLD NAME NEW NAME CHEST 2 VIEWS (ROUTINE)  XR CHEST 2 VIEWS (ROUTINE)  DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS, DBT, SCREENING BIL MAMMOGRAM  […]

A new referral process for pharmacy

The new order is under “Ambulatory Referral to Embedded Pulmonary Clinical Pharmacist“.  This order will allow you to select criteria regarding priority, criteria, and reason for referral: Please note, it will also help us if you indicate in the comments what ‘other’ is for (like MAB start). Additionally, this can be used for patients seen […]

Epic problem list

Access to the problem list is different for each encounter type. For those who cannot find it (for example a telephone encounter where it is not given it’s own “tab), see below for 3 different ways of getting to the problems.

Epic assistance

There is a provider assistance team that can aid with Epic optimization for inpatient and outpatient flows. This document contains the names/numbers of the key resources.

How to pull information from Epic flow sheets into a progress note

All flowsheets in epic are a group of rows with each one given a unique number.  This lets a given row get used in different places/flowsheets in Epic without rebuilding or getting the data split up (e.g. we might collect that answer to “cough” in a ton of different flowsheets with different uses but when […]

Epic dot phrases helpful for COVID-19 patients

2 dot phrases that might be of value for patients with COVID-19.   1.  MHLCOVIDLABTABLE This incorporates the inflammatory markers that Jen has indicated on the management documents such that you can trend them over time. The trend is for 3 days.  If you think that more days would be helpful, let me know   […]

Attestations Tip Sheet for Epic

The pertinent ones are in bold .CLINIC VISIT – I saw and evaluated the patient with the resident/fellow and agree with their findings and plan unless otherwise noted. @ME@ .INPATIENT SAME DAY – I saw and evaluated the patient on the date of my electronic signature and I agree with the findings and plan of the […]

Attestation Changes

Effective July 10, 2019 there will be changes to the existing approved outpatient and inpatient attestation statements. The most significant change will be the removal of the drop down menu that indicates the type of provider that you are supervising. This drop down menu will be replaced with “resident/fellow”. As a result, these new statements […]