Inpatient & Ambulatory: Volunteer for the Epic Upgrade Pilot
- Consider becoming a Pilot Super User! The next Epic Upgrade will go live on June 1, 2023.
- Provide valuable feedback and identify issues to improve workflows before go-live.
- NOTE: Users will be able to toggle between their current view and the upgrade view.
- To volunteer, contact Juliet Allen at jallen12@jhmi.edu OR complete and submit the Sign-Up
- Detailed instructions will be provided after access is granted.
- For more information review the Epic – Hyperdrive Basics tip sheet.
Inpatient & Ambulatory: LibreView Glucose Monitoring
- LibreView, a third party vendor integrated with Epic, provides glucose patterns and trends for patients with diabetes.
- Patients are enrolled when a provider enters and signs a LibreView order [search for synonym ‘CGM’].
- Continuous Glucose Monitoring [CGM] data can be reviewed in the SnapShot, Summary & Sidebar reports, and in Synopsis, Chart Review, and Results Review.
- Data can be pulled into notes using SmartLINKS with 14, 30, and 90-day lookback timeframes.
- LASTCGM14D
- LASTCGM30D
- LASTCGM90D
- Review the blog post here and the LibreView Glucometric and ACG Results Guide for more information.
Ambulatory: In Basket “Quick Tips to Save You Clicks”
Monthly Quick Tips Topic: Patient Medical Advice Requests (PMARs)
- Video Tip of the Week: PMAR: QuickAction Reply to Patient & Staff
- In Case You Missed It:
- For more information, visit the Great Eight website. Questions? Email InBasketQueries@jh.edu.
Ambulatory: Telephone/Refill Encounter Updates
- In response to clinician feedback, the Call Intake and Take Action tabs of the Telephone/Refill encounter default to a dual pane view.
- Clinicians have the option to change to a single pane view by clicking the wrench to rearrange their navigators.
- Review the blog post here.
Ambulatory: Anticoagulation Navigator Updates [Effective March 9, 2023]
- Anticoagulation has its own navigator tab, separate from the Rooming navigator.
- Additional tabs can be found in “More” Activities. Click the wrench to customize.
- Review the blog post here.
Ambulatory: Health Maintenance Topic [HMT] Changes
- Providers can manually add HMTs from a drop-down menu.
- The ‘Discontinue’ button has been removed from the Address Topic field, although ‘Add a Completion’ and ‘Postpone’ are selectable.
- NOTE: If a topic is not relevant to a patient, select the “Not a Candidate for” modifier. This excludes the patient from related Plans and the patient will no longer display as “due.”
- Review the blog post here.
Inpatient: New Death by Neurologic Criteria Policy
- To ensure compliance with the new JHHS Death by Neurological Criteria policy, the following Epic SmartTools should be used by clinicians authorized to document these assessments.
- NOTE: Personal SmartPhrases that begin with “BRAINDEATH” should not be used to document on adult patients unless they have been updated to the new .DEATHBYNEUROCRITERIA SmartPhrase format.
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Patient Age |
Tool Type | Tool Name | Tool Resource |
| Adult | SmartPhrase | .DEATHBYNEUROCRITERIA | Adult Blog Post |
| Pediatric | SmartText | JHH-ACH Pediatric Death by Neurologic Criteria Death Note | Pending Pediatric Tip Sheet |
Inpatient: AgileMD Guidelines for CHF
- A new evidence-based clinical care pathway for the inpatient management of congestive heart failure is available for all JHM hospitals in the Guidelines-AgileMD activity in Epic.
- These guidelines provide order-entry support and evidence-based pathways for Admission, Diuresis, Guideline Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT), and Discharge of patients with CHF.
- Use the JHM General Adult CHF Discharge order set which includes follow-up recommendations in the discharge AVS.
- Fore more information review the CHF – Guidelines AgileMD Activity tip sheet.
-Juliet Allen, MSN, RN, Business Solutions Analyst, Health IT Optimization & User Wellbeing
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