by akennedy | Dec 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Follow these instructions to set up your password and multifactor authentication (MFA). Houston Methodist uses MFA as an extra layer of security to keep our patient and hospital data safe. You’ll use it in the future to change your password. Step 1: Sign in to Office...
by akennedy | Dec 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Epic No anticoagulants orders now include a recommended duration entry for the time frame anticoagulant therapy should be avoided. You can also set a start and end time, leave the alert active until the medication is discontinued or keep the alert on until the patient...
by akennedy | Dec 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
When you set your Secure Chat status to Available, Busy, Do Not Disturb or Offline, be sure to include your communication preferences in the Message field so that senders understand what you prefer to be messaged or called directly about. This ensures that clinicians...
by akennedy | Oct 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
At 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends and clocks will adjust back one hour. Note: Epic won’t automatically correct the time. If you enter data in Epic between 1-2 a.m., before or after the time changes, be sure to validate the saved times are...
by akennedy | Oct 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Starting Monday, Oct. 31, at HMH, acute care physical therapy (PT) will now manage inpatient wound vacs, instead of the Wound Care Center and WOCNs. Negative pressure wound therapywill be removed from the WOCN in the Wound Care Consult guide. The Negative Pressure...
by akennedy | Oct 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the Overview report, in the Summary activity, you can now select Notify Me under Labs/Imaging Notification to be notified via Haiku/Canto/In Basket when results come in for specific tests. This will make it faster and easier for you to mark labs/images for results...
