by jmlowe@houstonmethodist.org | Feb 16, 2024 | Archive, Epic, IT Website, Web - All News
Clinical Justification documentation has been added to the Work List/Brain reassessment task to ensure compliance with this requirement. This field should be updated every two hours and is part of the Restraint Education and Justification...
by jmlowe@houstonmethodist.org | Feb 2, 2024 | Alerts, All Categories, Archive, Epic, Inpatient Staff, IT Website, News, Nursing, Pharmacy, Slider, Web - All News
On Tuesday, Feb. 13, a new uric acid test will be available for inpatients receiving rasburicase therapy. For accurate measurement, uric acid levels require special handling in these patients, so this new order will include directions on handling samples...
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...
