Epic Terms Exam with Complete Solutions

Account Maintenance (Revenue Cycle) - ANSWER-A module that allows billers to see financial activity for a guarantor account (Professional Billing) or hospital account (Hospital Billing, Home Health Billing, and Coding and Abstracting). Activity (All Applications) - ANSWER-The main place where users or administrators enter and view data in Hyperspace. For example, the Order History activity is used to view information for an order and the Medications activity is used to manage a patient's prescriptions. An activity can consist of a form, a report, or a series of forms. ADT/Prelude (Revenue Cycle) - ANSWER-Improves bed utilization and gives users the tools to manage hospital stays from pre-admission through discharge. Allows clinicians to access a census workspace that allows them to view and update current information on patients in their care. Flexible work queues help nurses and other staff members plan for upcoming ADT events, follow up on missing or inconsistent data and assess utilization. AVS (All Applications) - ANSWER-After Visit Summary - Report summarizing such things as orders, diagnoses, and notes for an encounter that you can print and send home with the patient. ASAP (Inpatient) - ANSWER-Epic's Emergency Department information system application. This application tracks ED patient visits to the emergency department (ED). The application manages ED staff workflow and includes all patient documentation and ordering for each patient visit. BCMA (Pharmacy) - ANSWER-Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA) is an inventory control system that uses barcodes to prevent human errors in the distribution, prescription, and administration medications at hospitals. The goal of BCMA is to make sure that patients are receiving the correct medications at the correct time by electronically validating and documenting medications. BPA (Ambulatory & Inpatient) - ANSWER-An advisory configured by administrators that can be triggered based on patient-based factors, among other things, and can be restricted as needed to prevent alert fatigue on the end users' part. BestPractice Advisory [BPAs] can appear in the Visit Navigator, Order Entry, and In Basket messages. Cadence (Revenue Cycle) - ANSWER-Name for Epic's Enterprise Scheduling application. Used to schedule and track patient appointments. Chart Central (All Applications) - ANSWER-An Epic application used to communicate charges from clinical to billing systems. It is a centralized place to handle all chargeable events. Chart Review (All Applications - ANSWER-Chart Tracking is the application which allows staff to keep track of paper medical records as they move throughout a facility. Chart Tracking (All Applications) - ANSWER-Chart Tracking is the application which allows staff to keep track of paper medical records as they move throughout a facility. Clarity report (All Applications) - ANSWER-A report generated using third-party software, such as Crystal, with data that was extracted using Clarity. Class (All Applications) - ANSWER-An In Basket messaging group created by administrators. When you send a message to a class, each recipient receives their own copy of the message. Use this for sharing information. ClinDoc (Ambulatory & Inpatient) - ANSWER-Documentation (notes, records of medication administrations, etc.) entered in a patient's hospital chart. Clinical References (Ambulatory & Inpatient) - ANSWER-An activity from which a clinician can search for patient educational materials concerning clinical topics and provide those materials to patients. Coding and Abstracting (All Applications) - ANSWER-An Epic Application. Coding and Abstracting allows you to complete coding for both patient's paper and electronic record. It includes verifying the ADT Information, reviewing the final diagnoses, procedures and DRGs calculated by a third- party encoder, and documenting any additional information for chart abstraction. Completion Matching (All Applications) - ANSWER-Entering a partial word in a search field instead of a whole word when looking up an item in Hyperspace. EpicCare looks for words starting with the characters entered and displays the results in a selection list. Cosign (Ambulatory & Inpatient) - ANSWER-Review and authorize an order, note, etc. Orders that require cosigns are orders that are placed for a patient but require additional sign-off from an authorized provider. CPOM (Ambulatory & Inpatient) - ANSWER-[Computerized Physician / Provider Order Management] The process for entering and managing physician orders and instructions electronically. Orders are transferred electronically to departments and staff who are responsible for fulfilling the orders. CPOE enables order entry either point-of-care or off site, decreases delay in order completion, provides duplicate order and incorrect dosage or test error-checking, simplifies posting of charges and inventory management, and minimizes errors associated with handwriting or transcription. Database Lookup Tab (Pharmacy) - ANSWER-Only available for pharmacists. The tab contains every medication record in the system. Many of the records are not on the formulary. The information comes from a third party data vendor. Decision Tracker - ANSWER-Tool used in implementation to capture validation points, the decisions made on those points during customer validation sessions, and other pertinent information including (but not limited to) owner and applications affected by the validation point. Deficiency Tracking (HIM) - ANSWER-An Epic Application. Deficiency Tracking allows you to create chart deficiencies automatically, to monitor deficiencies for completion, and to identify providers who have outstanding deficiencies. Dispensed (Inpatient) - ANSWER-A medication order has been verified by pharmacy and at least one dose has been dispensed. DNB (Revenue Cycle) - ANSWER-Account Status as Discharged/Not Billed. DBI (Revenue Cycle) - ANSWER-Do not bill insurance - Check box that, when selected, indicates that you should not bill a patient's insurance for a given procedure. ED Dashboard (Inpatient) - ANSWER-An ASAP activity that gives an at-a-glance view of ED statistics, such as triage times and waiting times. ED Log (Inpatient) - ANSWER-A collection of standard Census Inquiry reports in ASAP that keep track of patients as they move through the emergency department workflow. You can use this log to see an overview of all ED patients in the unit, as well as lists of expected, waiting, and roomed patients ED Manager (Inpatient) - ANSWER-One of the main activities in ASAP that displays all of the patients in the ED, as well as current staff working in the ED. ED Map (Inpatient) - ANSWER-One of the main activities in ASAP. Displays an interactive graphical map of the ED, as well as current staff working in the ED. ED Track Board (Inpatient) - ANSWER-A patient management activity in ASAP that allows you to view filtered lists of the patients with whom you are working. Encounter (Ambulatory & Inpatient) - ANSWER-A clinical contact with a patient. For example, an office visit, an admission, or a triage call. If more than one evaluation or procedure takes place at that visit, it is still usually considered one encounter. In billing applications, charges or other transactions can be associated with encounters. EpicCare Ambulatory (Ambulatory & Inpatient) - ANSWER-A clinical contact with a patient. For example, an office visit, an admission, or a triage call. If more than one evaluation or procedure takes place at that visit, it is still usually considered one encounter. In billing applications, charges or other transactions can be associated with encounters. Ambulatory care - ANSWER-outpatient care is medical care provided on an outpatient basis, including diagnosis, observation, consultation, treatment, intervention, and rehabilitation services. This care can include advanced medical technology and procedures even when provided outside of hospitals EpicCare Ambulatory (Ambulatory) - ANSWER-EpicCare Ambulatory combines efficient chart review, orders and documentation in a fast system that incorporates providers' preferences through the creation of preference lists. It organizes patient information and guides coordinated care across physical care settings. This system connects providers from all specialties to a single record for each patient. EpicCare Link (Ambulatory) - ANSWER-EpicCare Link gives community providers secure, web-based access to information about the care that is being provided to their patients. They can access progress notes, lab results, discharge instructions, consult notes and other portions of the patients chart. Secure messaging allows community providers to order laboratory and radiology studies. Flowsheet (All Applications) - ANSWER-Spreadsheet for documenting patient care. Set up by rows, groups, and templates. Epic supports both documentation flowsheets and review flowsheets. HAR (Revenue Cycle) - ANSWER-Hospital Account Record is used to group charges for billing purposes. Each HAR is associated with one or more patient visits in Epic. When using Single Billing Office module, a PB (professional billing) HAR is used to hold a single outpatient visit's charges. HOD - ANSWER-Hospital Outpatient Department (Inpatient)—A specialty department that provides outpatient-type care to patients who may or may not be admitted to the hospital. These departments often use a combination of clinical documentation tools from both EpicCare Ambulatory and EpicCare Inpatient. These departments are also known as hospital service departments, but hospital outpatient department is the preferred term. [HPF] charge entry (Revenue Cycle) - ANSWER-Hospital Professional Fee - charge entry (Revenue Cycle)—A type of charge entry designed to handle situations where outpatient providers are billing for services performed in a hospital. HPF stands for hospital professional fee. Hyperspace (All Applications) - ANSWER-The integrated platform that hosts most Epic applications. The graphical user interface used by most Epic applications, including EpicCare Ambulatory; the platform upon which all Epic products sit. Hyperspace Toolbar (All Applications) - ANSWER-Another name for the "Main Toolbar."