When you “reply” to a patient call in your patient call folder (later converted to a “telephone encounter”, anything you say gets deleted and will NOT show up in the chart. Instead, right click the message, and selecr “encounter” then: Create a new note re-route to anyone on that comment thread Do not use “reply […]
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Important Epic orders
To refer to outpatient pharmacy for inhaler technique assessment and inhaler adjustent: REFERRAL HOSPITAL-BASED AMBULATORY CARE CLINICAL PHARMACIST
Tell your patients: HFHS vaccination centers open for walk-ins
Anyone over age 12 can now walk in to an HFHS Vaccination Center for a COVID-19 vaccine – no appointment required. People under age 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian for both vaccine doses. For locations and hours, visit the OneHENRY COVID-19 Vaccine page. Can also direct them to henryford.com/vaccine for appointments.
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.
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 […]
Henry Ford Health System COVID-19 outpatient testing locations
Here are the outpatient COVID-19 testing locations available in the HFHS for COVID-19 molecular testing via nasopharyngeal swab
Update to COVID telephone E&M codes for physicians and APPs
As many insurance companies now allow telephone E&M codes to be billed as office visits, Epic code choices will be will be updated on Monday 6/15 to reflect the change. An expanded code set will be available in the LOS options in Epic: New Patients Telephone Visits: 9NTP1-5. Established Patients Telephone Visits: 9ETP2-5. Coding guidelines […]
New Health Maintenance Topic for COPD Assessment Test (CAT)
New Health Maintenance Topic for COPD Assessment Test Target Audience: Ambulatory Providers Date of Change: Currently effective Reason: Enhancement Description: There is a new annual Health Maintenance topic and plan called COPD Assessment Test (CAT). It is completed by doing COPD Assesssment Test (CAT) screening. Providers should complete the entire screening and generate a total score in order […]
E-consults
UPDATE with new TIP Sheet. E-consults has gone live in the pulmonary division via Epic. Here is the attached E-Consults Tip Sheet v12> Tip Sheet to both generate and respond to an e-consult Important things to note: 5 business day specialty turnaround time (or better); this should be handled by the assigned checker on the date/time […]
Sarcoid Tip – calcium
A nice review article on how to assess and manage calcium and vitamin D in sarcoid: Burke RR, Rybicki BA, Rao DS. Calcium and vitamin D in sarcoidosis: how to assess and manage. [Review]. Seminars in Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. 2010;31(4):474-484