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DVT Orders Column: Hospice Icon

The DVT Orders’ Patient List column now has a red H icon to identify patients in hospice.

CMS Regulatory Update to MSPQ

Effective Sunday, Feb. 13, you’ll see a new streamlined Medicare Secondary Payer Questionnaire (MSPQ) that aligns with the CMS Model Questionnaire.

BPA: Depression Screening

On Tuesday, Jan. 25, Depression Screening Best Practice Advisory (BPA) goes into effect.

BPA: New Acknowledgement Reasons for EDI

To ensure documentation options are more aligned with what clinicians need, the acknowledgement reasons for the Epic Deterioration Index (EDI) score increase BPA were recently updated.

Uploading Your COVID-19 Vaccination Record into the Employee Health Portal

All HM employees are required to get a COVID-19 booster (management by Monday, Jan. 31 and Tuesday, March 1 for all other employees).
If you received your COVID-19 booster outside of Employee Health but it is available in MyChart you can easily download your record from MyChart, by following these instructions.

Webex No Longer Available Beginning April 1

To consolidate communication and collaboration tools and reduce operating costs, we’ll stop using Webex beginning Friday, April 1.

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Downtime Calendar

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QSight: Every Tuesday and Thursday

Every Tuesday and Thursday, 10 p.m. – midnight

Be prepared for intermittent or no access. Follow your department’s standard downtime procedures.

LMS: Saturday to Sunday

Saturday, Jan. 22, 10 p.m. to Sunday, Jan. 23, 5 a.m.

Saturday, Jan. 29, 10 p.m. to Sunday, Jan. 30, 5 a.m.

LMS won’t be available due to maintenance

LaborWorkx: Thursday, Jan. 20 to Friday, Jan. 21

11:55 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20 – 5 a.m. Friday, Jan. 21.

LaborWorkx won’t be available during these time frames. Be sure to print any required items. For questions, contact HR Hub at 832.667.6211 or HRHub@HoustonMethodist.org. Note: Badge Readers will be available, but not Quick Badge and Mobile app.

IT Support Website and ChangeGear: Thu, Jan. 27

11:30-11:59 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27

You won’t be able to use itsupport.houstonmethodist.org or the ChangeGear ticketing system during this time. Contact the IT Service Desk at itsupport@houstonmethodist.org for non-critical issues or call for urgent issues.

OnBase: Sun, Jan. 23

7-9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23

Scanning media into Epic will be unavailable, and media can’t be viewed. Other impacted applications include Express Scan and Unity Client.

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