Epic Bridges Recertification Newest 2024 – 2025 Exam/
Actual Exam Questions with Correct Verified Answers/
Graded A+
What are the 4 types of Error Severities - Correct Answer - Critical, Fatal, Warning,
Notification
What does FHIR stand for - Correct Answer - Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource
What are the two types of FHIR apps that Epic supports - Correct Answer - Provider and
Patient facing Apps
MyChart authentication is used for what? - Correct Answer - Patient facing apps
FHIR definition - Correct Answer - Exposes a standardized data model of health care
resources and specifies a RESTful exchange method via HTTPs to access data
What happens when a trigger it hit in Epic - Correct Answer - An event is added to the
EVENT QUEUE with a small set of values with the necessary information t find the data
in Chronicles needed to build the message: the Patient ID, the patient contact, the type
of message and other addition information that the triggering process passes to the
interface
What happens after a trigger puts an entry in the EVENT QUEUE - Correct Answer -
Event Daemon processes the event queue by reading the next event and using the
information in the event to build the message (pulling addition data for the message
from Chronicles)
What happens after the Event Daemon processes an entry in the EVENT queue -
Correct Answer - EVENT DAEMON puts the message along with some metadata
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,including timestamp information and event string on the DATA QUEUE and adds the
message number to the CONTROL QUEUE
What is the main job of the Control Queue - Correct Answer - Basically a to-do list with
very little data (i.e. message number) and serves as a pointer to the complete message
on the DATA QUEUE
What happens after the EVENT DAEMON puts an entry on the DATA QUEUE and the
CONTROL QUEUE - Correct Answer - The EVEN DAEMON delete the entry from the
EVENT QUEUE before moving onto processing the next message in the EVENT
QUEUE
What role does the communication daemon have in relation to the control queue -
Correct Answer - Communication daemon reads the control queue to get messages
number and then uses that to find the message in the DATA QUEUE
What happens after the communication daemon gets messages from DATA QUEUE -
Correct Answer - Comm. Daemon sends the message out and waits for an ACK then
deletes messages from control queue and then proceeds to the next message on the
control queue
How do messages get out of the DATA QUEUE - Correct Answer - Messages are
purged by a job based on a setting in the AIP or default to the background monitor
purge days if left blank
List of some Master Files - Correct Answer - SER (Provider), EAP (Procedue), DEF
(Department), EAF (Facility) , DEV (Device), ERX (Medication) - these are just a few.
Translation Tables - Correct Answer - Used to map values between Epic and another
system. This is also a record in AIF master file, which is enabled for Data Courier.
Translates one value to another.
Incoming Tables - Correct Answer - used to map data being received from an external
system into values Epic can store into Chronicles
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, Outgoing Tables - Correct Answer - used to map data stored in Epic to external
Systems.
IMPORTANT** Translation Tables should NOT be used to map Record ID - Correct
Answer - Identity is nearly always used to map record -level identifiiers, such as
procedures, patients, providers and medications.
True/False - once you delete the ID there is now way to see the ID in the ID
maintenance activity - Correct Answer - False - they appear on the bottom section
what are 3 ways to migrate data from test to production environment - Correct Answer -
data courtier tool, Interface Moving Utility and Manual Migration.
What are the key interface components for a dashboard - Correct Answer - Error
Metrics by Severity
Monitoring Info
Errors to Focus on
Error Workqueue Summary
Bridges Links and Reports
What happens when you resubmit a message - Correct Answer - creates a new
message that is added to the Data Queue as well as a pointer to that message on the
Control Queue to be processed.
Dynamic Message Content Column - Correct Answer - If you cannot find a standard
column to include a particular data element from the message, you can use
a Dynamic Message Content column. These columns allow you to select any element
or even multiple
elements from within the message.
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Actual Exam Questions with Correct Verified Answers/
Graded A+
What are the 4 types of Error Severities - Correct Answer - Critical, Fatal, Warning,
Notification
What does FHIR stand for - Correct Answer - Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource
What are the two types of FHIR apps that Epic supports - Correct Answer - Provider and
Patient facing Apps
MyChart authentication is used for what? - Correct Answer - Patient facing apps
FHIR definition - Correct Answer - Exposes a standardized data model of health care
resources and specifies a RESTful exchange method via HTTPs to access data
What happens when a trigger it hit in Epic - Correct Answer - An event is added to the
EVENT QUEUE with a small set of values with the necessary information t find the data
in Chronicles needed to build the message: the Patient ID, the patient contact, the type
of message and other addition information that the triggering process passes to the
interface
What happens after a trigger puts an entry in the EVENT QUEUE - Correct Answer -
Event Daemon processes the event queue by reading the next event and using the
information in the event to build the message (pulling addition data for the message
from Chronicles)
What happens after the Event Daemon processes an entry in the EVENT queue -
Correct Answer - EVENT DAEMON puts the message along with some metadata
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,including timestamp information and event string on the DATA QUEUE and adds the
message number to the CONTROL QUEUE
What is the main job of the Control Queue - Correct Answer - Basically a to-do list with
very little data (i.e. message number) and serves as a pointer to the complete message
on the DATA QUEUE
What happens after the EVENT DAEMON puts an entry on the DATA QUEUE and the
CONTROL QUEUE - Correct Answer - The EVEN DAEMON delete the entry from the
EVENT QUEUE before moving onto processing the next message in the EVENT
QUEUE
What role does the communication daemon have in relation to the control queue -
Correct Answer - Communication daemon reads the control queue to get messages
number and then uses that to find the message in the DATA QUEUE
What happens after the communication daemon gets messages from DATA QUEUE -
Correct Answer - Comm. Daemon sends the message out and waits for an ACK then
deletes messages from control queue and then proceeds to the next message on the
control queue
How do messages get out of the DATA QUEUE - Correct Answer - Messages are
purged by a job based on a setting in the AIP or default to the background monitor
purge days if left blank
List of some Master Files - Correct Answer - SER (Provider), EAP (Procedue), DEF
(Department), EAF (Facility) , DEV (Device), ERX (Medication) - these are just a few.
Translation Tables - Correct Answer - Used to map values between Epic and another
system. This is also a record in AIF master file, which is enabled for Data Courier.
Translates one value to another.
Incoming Tables - Correct Answer - used to map data being received from an external
system into values Epic can store into Chronicles
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, Outgoing Tables - Correct Answer - used to map data stored in Epic to external
Systems.
IMPORTANT** Translation Tables should NOT be used to map Record ID - Correct
Answer - Identity is nearly always used to map record -level identifiiers, such as
procedures, patients, providers and medications.
True/False - once you delete the ID there is now way to see the ID in the ID
maintenance activity - Correct Answer - False - they appear on the bottom section
what are 3 ways to migrate data from test to production environment - Correct Answer -
data courtier tool, Interface Moving Utility and Manual Migration.
What are the key interface components for a dashboard - Correct Answer - Error
Metrics by Severity
Monitoring Info
Errors to Focus on
Error Workqueue Summary
Bridges Links and Reports
What happens when you resubmit a message - Correct Answer - creates a new
message that is added to the Data Queue as well as a pointer to that message on the
Control Queue to be processed.
Dynamic Message Content Column - Correct Answer - If you cannot find a standard
column to include a particular data element from the message, you can use
a Dynamic Message Content column. These columns allow you to select any element
or even multiple
elements from within the message.
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