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.
Sepsis Dot Phrases
There are 2 new sepsis dot phrases which will go live in June 2021. These can either define time zero or make a statement that sepsis is not present. These statements can be utilized in your problem list or a general note.
COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies (as of 04/15/2021)
Henry Ford Health System has increased access to COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody Therapy Here is an attached PDF outlining the particulars Here is the press release discussing the process.
Acute Liver Failure Protocol
Please see the attached protocol for acute liver failure. This was drafted with input from hepatology, neurology/neuro-critical care, medical critical care, nephrology, and transplant (hepatobiliary) surgery. An EPIC order set is being developed This will help direct care in our acute liver failure patients.
Epic automatically spelling out abbreviations
Epic recently released a system wide upgrade that spells out various words when you attempt to type the accronym, For example “Lifelong NS” is converted to “Life long normal saline”. “F/U in clinic” is converted to “follow units in clinic” etc. This can be disabled. In the search bar go to user dictionary 2. Type […]
Tuberculosis (TB) clinics
Detroit Health Department TB clinic TB Nurse Tammy Cooper Phone 313-577-9827 Fax 313-577-9887 Dr. Dana Kissner dkissner@med.wayne.edu https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-health-department/programs-and-services/communicable-disease Communicable Disease Program Reporting form Wayne County TB Clinic
Inhaled epoprostenol and inhaled nitric oxide use for COVID positive patients with ARDS
– Here are the policy and PowerPoint which contains education on inhaled epoprostenol and inhaled nitric oxide use for COVID positive patients with ARDS. – The PowerPoint has audio embedded in it.– The policy will be “live” on 2/17/21.
Henry Ford Cancer Center Institute Detroit Telephone Directory
Here is the link for the HFCI telephone numbers in Detroit
RELIANCE Trial – Roflumilast versus Azithromycin
RELIANCE is a PCORI funded U.S.-based multi-center, randomized, 36-month, parallel group, non-inferiority, phase III study to compare the effectiveness of Roflumilast (Daliresp) versus Azithromycin using comparative effectiveness research (CER) methodology. If you have a patient you’re considering treatment intensification with roflumilast or azithromycin to reduce the risk of COPD exacerbations please contact Sheri Renaud, the […]
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.