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CHAPTER 2-Contact - CORRECT ANSWER-The core of reporting on the interactions your organization has with its patients is the concept of a patient encounter. Each encounter represents a clinical contact with the patient. Any time we would like to document information about an interaction with a patient, we need a place to store the information for that interaction. In Epic, these slices in time are the contacts in the EPT master file, which we refer to as encounters. CHAPTER 2-Encounter - CORRECT ANSWER-Each encounter represents a clinical contact with the patient. CHAPTER 2-Encounter Type - CORRECT ANSWER-There are many different kinds of encounters, representing the different types of interactions with patients, and each type can have different information that you need to store. The encounter type can help determine what functionality needs to be made available to the user documenting the visit. CHAPTER 2-Visit Type - CORRECT ANSWER-Whereas encounter type details the type of EPT contact, a visit type is a description of what is going to take place during a specific encounter with a patient. Visit types can be used to simplify scheduling, but can also have an impact on reporting. Many organizations use the visit type as an alternative mechanism for grouping different types of encounters. CHAPTER 2-Provider - CORRECT ANSWER-Providers in Chronicles are stored as SER records, and represent the provider as someone who can provide care to a patient and can be schedu