Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
InBasket – Using and Creating QuickActions QuickActions can be used to review results in chart review, reply to patient calls and refill protocols. Providers can either use system QuickActions or create their own to send result notes in fewer clicks. There are 16 system QuickActions [‘gears’ symbol]. Here are 4 examples: Results => Result Note […]
InBasket External Email Reminders Providers can subscribe to reminder emails about unread InBasket messages. This is useful for part-time clinicians who don't log into Hyperspace frequently. Click on InBasket, then the settings icon on the toolbar, check the "subscribe with email address" box, and enter the email address where you would like the messages sent. A […]
Inpatient - Add Patient Education Button to Epic Toolbar for Inpatient Providers [Effective April 2, 2019] Inpatient providers will have access to the Patient Education button within the toolbar—this may require clicking the chevron drop-down menu if your toolbar contains many tabs. Options under the Patient Education button will include Krames, Education Videos Preview, Kids Health […]
Mammography Best Practice Advisory (BPA) Change Providers will receive a BPA for any woman who isn’t currently enrolled in a Mammography Health Maintenance modifier/plan [HMP] at 40 years of age. The new BPA includes a summary of the guidelines (with links), automatically adds a one year Mammography HMP, and opens a SmartSet to place a […]
Link to Affidavit of Surrogate Health Care Decision Maker Form in Capacity & ACP Navigator An Affidavit of Surrogate Health Care Decision Maker is required in Maryland when a Health Care Agent has not been designated for a patient who lacks capacity and a surrogate other than a primary family member will be making decisions. […]
Inpatient - Create a Copy Feature for Discharge Medication Ordering When a provider creates multiple versions of a discharge medication order such as ordering a taper or other series of "daisy chained" prescriptions with overlapping start and end dates, use the Create a Copy Right-click on the medication order and select Create a Copy in […]
Inpatient - New Reportable SmartLink for Consult Team Times A SmartForm has been created for documenting consultant arrival time and complete time. Enter the SmartPhrase .CONSULTTEAMTIME in the consult note. This will pull in a SmartBlock. Click the SmartBlock Consult Team Times button at the top of the note. This will open the SmartForm. SmartForm […]
Haiku and Canto Now Require iOS Version 11 or Later Clinicians using older iOS devices that do not support iOS 11 will not be able to install the latest version of Haiku or Canto and will not continue to receive automatic Haiku updates. After the June 2019 Hopkins Epic upgrade, users with older iOS versions […]
Call 410-614-EPIC for any issues. Haiku/Canto - Patient Charts Locked for Editing If a patient's chart is open on your mobile device, that patient's chart is now locked on other devices or workstations for approximately 20 minutes. Exiting the app will not immediately unlock the patient's chart. To ensure other users can access a chart, you […]
Epic's relatively new Advanced Care Planning Portal is particularly useful for compliance with the Maryland law requiring a second licensed physician to sign off to confirm incapacity allowing consent to be obtained from a surrogate for a non-emergent procedure in patients who are not unconscious or unable to communicate. Due to Epic guidelines, we cannot […]