Many of you have requested that we make the OR status boards available in Haiku / Canto. In Epic 2014, this feature was not available and we had to defer to Epic 2017. The status boards are now available in …
In the upcoming Epic 2017 upgrade, you will be able to easily determine who made edits to a note and what content was changed. By default, two note attribution tools appear whenever users review the text of a note in …
Colleagues – On November 12th, we will be upgrading to Epic 2017. There are several new enhancements in the 2017 version of Epic that will have a positive impact in the way we provide care to our patients. …
Clostridium Difficile Screening: We have streamlined Cdiff ordering by pairing up the order with Enteric Precautions. This eliminates clicks and will allow you to place two orders (Cdiff and enteric precautions) simultaneously. We have also added decision support to …
Starting October 18th, 2017, if a licensed resident or fellow attempts to close an encounter without changing the LOS Authorizing Provider to a valid billing attending provider, they will receive the below: If this message box pops …
On October 10th, we will begin the transition of the Possible Sepsis / Confirmed Sepsis Orders to a clinical pathway format. The new Possible Sepsis / Confirmed Sepsis Pathway will allow for more efficient ordering and better compliance …
Timely expiration orders (30 mins or less) must be placed in Epic so that all relevant people are notified of a patient expiration. Health Care Access initiates electronic death certificates as soon as an expiration order via the discharge order …
In order to reduce the number of clicks when prescribing medications at time of discharge, the order class of NORMAL (e-prescribe) will be default selected on all discharge medication orders. This aligns with currently functionality in the ambulatory setting.…
In order to reduce the number of clicks when prescribing medications at time of discharge, the order class of NORMAL (e-prescribe) will be default selected on all discharge medication orders. This aligns with currently functionality in the ambulatory setting.…
Ordering a UA with Reflex in a catheterized patient often yields false positives. This may result in the patient being identified as having a CAUTI (Catheter associated UTI) which is inappropriate in many of these cases. UAs with …