For All Epic Users
Attach a Patient Chart to a Text Message
If you haven’t used Secure Chat yet, you are missing out on a great new Epic feature. With Secure Chat, you can use Epic to securely text others for non-emergent communications from your desktop, WOW or Epic mobile apps like Haiku, Canto and Rover . Since its successful launch May 6, providers, clinicians and staff have exchanged 29,895 messages.
If you use Epic and haven’t tried it yet, Secure Chat allows you to attach a patient chart to a message. This makes the patient’s information easily accessible, right in the text message. Note: This works if you’re starting a new message, but you can’t attach a patient chart to a conversation that’s already under way.
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Epic desktop/WOW. For details, please review this tip sheet.
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Click Attach Patient.
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Enter the patient’s name in the Patient field.
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Haiku/Canto. For details, please review this tip sheet.
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Tap Patient, then select the patient whose chart you’re attaching.
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Continue by tapping To and enter the recipient name/s and begin typing your message.
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Rover. For details, please review this tip sheet.
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Tap Select a Patient.
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Enter the patient’s name or MRN, then tap in the To field to enter message recipients.
