by jmlowe@houstonmethodist.org | Feb 2, 2024 | Alerts, All Categories, Archive, Epic, IT Website, News, Nursing, Slider, Web - All News
A new tool in Epic, the Nursing Assignment Wizard, is now available to help charge nurses in all inpatient units, except for OB, create nursing assignments. This tool also helps assign nurses to their patients’ care teams, which enables care team communications...
by jmlowe@houstonmethodist.org | Jan 18, 2024 | All Categories, Archive, Epic, IT Website, News, Slider, Uncategorized
New Critical Results/Tests groups have replaced the previous flowsheet group and rows in Epic. The previous groups were duplicated and resulted in multiple fields with critical result entry errors. To maintain historic documentation, the previous rows will remain in...
by jmlowe@houstonmethodist.org | Jan 12, 2024 | All Categories, Archive, Epic, IT Website, News, Registration Scheduling and Patient Access, Slider
Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 16, the following automatically assigned Epic Referral Scheduling Statuses will no longer be available for manual assignment: Automation Contacted 1x Automation Contacted 2x Automation Contacted, Declined Automation Contacted, Ready to Schedule...
by jmlowe@houstonmethodist.org | Jan 12, 2024 | All Categories, Epic, IT Website, News, Slider
Starting Friday, Jan. 12, there will be a new “no orders” SmartText added to Secure Chat. Now, when you receive an order via Secure Chat, you can quickly respond that orders can’t be placed/accepted through Secure Chat. When writing your Secure Chat message, simply...
by jmlowe@houstonmethodist.org | Jan 4, 2024 | Archive, Epic, IT Website, News, Outpatient Clinical Support Staff, Slider, Web - All News
As a reminder, when you have a patient who needs help setting up a MyChart account or connecting to a video visit, you can provide them with this tip sheet. It walks them through the process and has instructions in both English and Spanish. If the patient has trouble...
by jmlowe@houstonmethodist.org | Jan 4, 2024 | All Categories, Archive, Epic, Inpatient Staff, IT Website, News, Slider, Uncategorized
Starting Monday, Jan. 8, medication education BPAs will begin transitioning to Education Points under the Education tab on the MAR sidebar. This move is part of our larger effort to streamline and reduce BPAs. Instead of the BPA, you’ll be able to review the necessary...
