Epic Bridges Exam Test Bank – Real 200 Questions and Correct Answers (2026 Updated)

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EPIC BRIDGES EXAM REAL EXAM
2025/2026| 200 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT
ANSWERS|ALREADY GRADED
A+✓
Question: Trigger
Answer:
Serves as the integration point between the application workflow and
Bridges


-generally an action in Hyperspace, like clicking a button or closing an activity


-a single, clearly defined action that a user or process can take that results in
an interface message being created and sent


Question: An interface message contains....
Answer:
Data about an event (like a patient being admitted to the hospital)


Question: MSH-11 and MSH-12 are...
Answer:
the HL7 processing ID and version; Epic checks these values on an incoming
message and rejects the message if they do not match the expected values


Question: Segment Identifier
Answer:

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Three character code that identifies what kind of data that segment contains


Question: PID-5
Answer:
patient name


Question: NTE segment
Answer:
can follow many different segments


Question: Z-segment
Answer:
custom segment for a specific implementation


Question: Is it necessary to send empty fields following the last valued field?
Answer:
No


Question: Within a field do you need to send all components?
Answer:
Only as many as are valued


Question: Blank fields...
Answer:
don't file anything


Question: Delete character HL7

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Answer:
double quotes " "--- tells the receiving system to delete a piece of info it has


Question: FHIR
Answer:
specifies RESTful exchange method via HTTPs to access data


Question: Other standards supported by Bridges
Answer:
X12, FHIR, NCPDP, DICOM, and Direct


Question: Event (in context of outgoing message flow)
Answer:
small set of values with the necessary info to build the message: patient ID,
patient contact, type of message, and additional info


-contains directions for where the interface should pull the information it
needs from the database


Question: Queue
Answer:
storage location outside of Chronicles database structure


Question: Event Queue is procesed by...
Answer:
the Event Daemon

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Question: Daemon (Outgoing Message Flow)
Answer:
process that runs in the background without any direct user action


Question: Event Daemon (Outgoing Message Flow)
Answer:
pulls an event off the Event Queue, uses the information in the event to build
the message and finally deletes the event from the event queue.


The event daemon puts the message it has built onto the data queue and adds
an instruction to the Control Queue


builds an HL7 message based on data pulled from Chronicles


Question: Data Queue (Outgoing Message Flow)
Answer:
contains the full text of the message along with some additional metadata
(i.e. timestamp) about message processing


Question: Control Queue (Outgoing Message Flow)
Answer:
a to-do list and contains very little data
-processed by the Communications Daemon
-maintains a list of messages waiting to be processed


Question: Comm Deamon (Outgoing Message Flow)
Answer: