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 […]

Easy way to order sleep studies on pulmonary patients

With the long waiting times to get patients into Sleep Clinic, Luisa has provided some tips you can do on your clinic visit to expedite this.  There are only 3 very easy steps you need to do. Step one: in your note use this dot phrase: .sleeprequirements This info in your clinic note will be […]

Determining inhaler coverage

Although Zach created a list of all of the inhalers out there, it is often difficult to determine which inhalers are actually covered by a patient’s insurance plan. In addition, co-pays vary greatly. This is a significant barrier to writing prescriptions “on the fly”, as you are seeing the patient in clinic. In Epic you […]

nebulized hypertonic saline for sputum expectoration.

Although we may rarely need to prescribe hypertonic saline as an outpatient, finding this order in Epic is not intuitive. This post serves as a reference for when we need to write this. TYPE: sodium chloride 7% for nebulization. Then click the database lookup tab.

Ordering a sweat chloride test for patients

If a sweat chloride test needs to be performed to help workup a patient with bronchiectasis (to rule in/out cystic fibrosis): To set up the test The provider or the patient can call the main number at the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Center at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan (313-745-5541) Appointments are made for Monday and […]

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 […]

Inhalers

NOTE: an updated list of inhalers is available for 2018. —– Zach has prepared a nice summary (pdf, Excel)) of all the inhalers. This is especially useful now, given the recent Flame study.