by jsalwais@houstonmethodist.org | Sep 13, 2018 | Alerts, Epic, Inpatient Outpatient Provider, Inpatient Staff, News, Web - All News, Web - Inpatient, Web - Inpatient Nursing, Web - Inpatient Staff
To help improve compliance with restraints documentation, we’ve made the following changes, effective Friday, Sept. 14: Color-coded the Restraints flowsheets. Added color-coding legend in the row information. Added (indwelling or external) to Urinary catheter option...
by jsalwais@houstonmethodist.org | Sep 13, 2018 | All Categories, Epic, News, Web - All News, Web - Inpatient
If you get a call from someone saying they’re with our IT Help Desk, be very careful — particularly if you haven’t contacted the Help Desk. Scammers posing as our Houston Methodist IT Help Desk have called some of our employees recently. This attack is one more reason...
by jsalwais@houstonmethodist.org | Sep 10, 2018 | Alerts, ED Provider, Epic, Inpatient Staff, News, Web - Inpatient, Web - Inpatient Staff
For ED and Critical Care Nursing To meet organ donation notification requirements by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a new BestPractice Advisory (BPA) will fire when ICU and ED patients with an active endotracheal tube have a Glasgow Coma Scale...
by jsalwais@houstonmethodist.org | Aug 31, 2018 | Alerts, All Categories, ED Provider, Epic, Inpatient Outpatient Provider, Inpatient Staff, News, Outpatient Clinical Support Staff, Web - All News, Web - Inpatient, Web - Inpatient Nursing, Web - Inpatient Providers, Web - Inpatient Staff
On Wednesday, Sept. 5, incomplete blood transfusion documentation for discharged patients will be automatically adjusted to show all transfusions as stopped and completed. This will not impact currently-admitted patients and patients discharged less than 12 hours...
by jsalwais@houstonmethodist.org | Aug 31, 2018 | Alerts, ED Provider, Epic, Inpatient Outpatient Provider, Inpatient Staff, News, Web - Inpatient, Web - Inpatient Nursing, Web - Inpatient Providers, Web - Inpatient Staff
The flu vaccine for 2018-19 will be available starting Sept. 4. To prepare for the coming flu season, the following changes were made in Epic to improve efficiencies and address concerns from last year. Several rows have been removed from the flu screening questions,...
