Epic AMB 400 Exam Questions and Answers
1. Describe the most efficient way to have the same question appear for
All the diagnostic imaging procedures. Link the procedure category for those
imaging tests to the question.
2. If you list Glucose as a Result Component in a procedure record, how does
that affect the user who results this test?: In Enter/Edit Results, the user sees
the component by default, thus saving documentation time.
3. In the procedure category for Lab Sent Outs, two buttons are set up for
CLASS. However, when users order the iron assay (a procedure linked to this
category), four buttons display for CLASS. Explain why.: The system searches
for details using the procedure hierarchy, so it finds the four buttons defined in the
iron assay procedure record and displays them.
4. Users complain that when they order diagnostic imaging tests for ANY
patient, the question "Is the patient pregnant?" appears. What setup is
wrong?: The linked question record should have been limited to females of an
appropriate age.
5. There is a lab test for which you have specified a default order class. For
this order, you want to hide the CLASS field in the order composer so users
do not change the class. Describe how to do this.: Create an OCC record that
does not include the CLASS as a display item, and link the procedure to that OCC.
6. True or False: The Additional Order Details display item can only be set up
in an OCC record that you link to System Definitions.: False
7. What context is OCC?: Ambulatory Context
8. What is Controlled?: Term to specify if field should be required or recommend-
ed.
9. What else can meds and procedures contain?: Instructions, questions (LQL),
add'l items
10. What is EAP?: Procedures
11. Orderable procedures must be linked to what in order for them to be
looked up in order entry?: Procedure Category
12. What is determined in the procedure/ procedure category?: Buttons, de-
fault order status, default order class, what should be available.
13. Where are the buttons entered in a procedure/procedure category?: Out-
patient order composer buttons selection screen
14. What and where determines what order classes are available?: Proce-
dure/procedure category and under 'Allowed Order Class Section'
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15. What procedure name is seen by end users?: Order Display Name
16. Where can free text fields be added to orders?: OCC
17. LQL Questions- what should be entered for free text?: Response type: Text
18. If questions are linked to a procedure and its category, what happens?-
: Both sets of questions appear (even one question more than once) from both
levels
19. If questions should only not be displayed from both the procedure and
the procedure category, what can be done?: This can be overridden so that only
procedure-level questions display.
20. What are primary display items?: OCC Procedure details
21. What are secondary display items?: Show Add'l details
22. Order class buttons and the default order class are chosen from what
section?: "Allowed order classes"
23. True or False: If a value has not been listed as allowed, this cannot be
listed as a button or default value?: True
24. Procedure Category Setup for OCC: Ambulatory context -> Your AMB POCT
Orderables OCC
Additional Outpatient Order Details Context -> AMB Point of Care Additional Order
Details
25. Procedures Link to a Result Component are listed as what?: Orderable
and Performable
26. Procedures Link to a Result Component are linked where?: Lab and Result
Entry Information Screen
27. Procedures Link to a Result Component and a type is specified where?-
: Default Specimen Type (Ex. =Blood)
28. Procedures Link to a Result Component and the sources available are
located where?: Procedure Specific Specimen Sources Screen (Ex Arm, Left
(43); Arm, Right (44) )
29. True or False: Referral display items can change based on the selected
order class.: True
30. What is the context of the OCC that includes the "pointer" referral display
item?: Ambulatory
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31. A physician requests that dynamic display items be set up for a medica-
tion based on the frequency (4 times daily versus 2 times daily). Will you be
able to do this?: No. Dynamic setup is only for referral procedures.
32. OCC-Referrals are linked where: Procedure category under the order com-
poser configeration screen
33. What for referrals can change display items?: Class
34. How many OCCs are needed for referral procedures?: 3
35. What are the 3 contexts needed for dynamic referral procedures?: -Ambu-
latory context; Internal referral- ambulatory context; -external-referral -ambulatory
context; (can also use 4th of incoming referral when organization receives faxed
referrals from external providers)
36. What contexts are needed for non-dynamic referral procedures?: ambu-
latory context; referral-ambulatory
37. What is Referral information for OCC?: Display item for OCC record; tells
system to check the linked referral context OCC to determine which referral-based
item to display
38. What is needed for an Internal referral-ambulatory OCC?: Ordering type:
Procedure; Ordering Context: Internal Referral-Ambulatory; Display Items
39. What is needed for an External referral-ambulatory OCC?: Ordering type:
Procedure; Ordering Context: External Referral-Ambulatory; Display Items
40. True or False: In order to document a historical immunization, you must
have a procedure record.: False
41. True or False: Questions can be linked to a procedure or an immuniza-
tion.: True
42. What is the abbreviation for immunizations on the immunizations activi-
ty?: LIM
43. Where are order-specific questions linked?: in the Procedure record; Ques-
tions are LQL
44. Where are the immunization activity-specific questions linked?: in the
Immunization record; Questions are LQL
45. What field in the procedure record is the immunization activity record
linked?: "Link to immunization" field
46. If you are building a procedure record to link to an immunization record,
what should you build first?: Immunization record
1. Describe the most efficient way to have the same question appear for
All the diagnostic imaging procedures. Link the procedure category for those
imaging tests to the question.
2. If you list Glucose as a Result Component in a procedure record, how does
that affect the user who results this test?: In Enter/Edit Results, the user sees
the component by default, thus saving documentation time.
3. In the procedure category for Lab Sent Outs, two buttons are set up for
CLASS. However, when users order the iron assay (a procedure linked to this
category), four buttons display for CLASS. Explain why.: The system searches
for details using the procedure hierarchy, so it finds the four buttons defined in the
iron assay procedure record and displays them.
4. Users complain that when they order diagnostic imaging tests for ANY
patient, the question "Is the patient pregnant?" appears. What setup is
wrong?: The linked question record should have been limited to females of an
appropriate age.
5. There is a lab test for which you have specified a default order class. For
this order, you want to hide the CLASS field in the order composer so users
do not change the class. Describe how to do this.: Create an OCC record that
does not include the CLASS as a display item, and link the procedure to that OCC.
6. True or False: The Additional Order Details display item can only be set up
in an OCC record that you link to System Definitions.: False
7. What context is OCC?: Ambulatory Context
8. What is Controlled?: Term to specify if field should be required or recommend-
ed.
9. What else can meds and procedures contain?: Instructions, questions (LQL),
add'l items
10. What is EAP?: Procedures
11. Orderable procedures must be linked to what in order for them to be
looked up in order entry?: Procedure Category
12. What is determined in the procedure/ procedure category?: Buttons, de-
fault order status, default order class, what should be available.
13. Where are the buttons entered in a procedure/procedure category?: Out-
patient order composer buttons selection screen
14. What and where determines what order classes are available?: Proce-
dure/procedure category and under 'Allowed Order Class Section'
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15. What procedure name is seen by end users?: Order Display Name
16. Where can free text fields be added to orders?: OCC
17. LQL Questions- what should be entered for free text?: Response type: Text
18. If questions are linked to a procedure and its category, what happens?-
: Both sets of questions appear (even one question more than once) from both
levels
19. If questions should only not be displayed from both the procedure and
the procedure category, what can be done?: This can be overridden so that only
procedure-level questions display.
20. What are primary display items?: OCC Procedure details
21. What are secondary display items?: Show Add'l details
22. Order class buttons and the default order class are chosen from what
section?: "Allowed order classes"
23. True or False: If a value has not been listed as allowed, this cannot be
listed as a button or default value?: True
24. Procedure Category Setup for OCC: Ambulatory context -> Your AMB POCT
Orderables OCC
Additional Outpatient Order Details Context -> AMB Point of Care Additional Order
Details
25. Procedures Link to a Result Component are listed as what?: Orderable
and Performable
26. Procedures Link to a Result Component are linked where?: Lab and Result
Entry Information Screen
27. Procedures Link to a Result Component and a type is specified where?-
: Default Specimen Type (Ex. =Blood)
28. Procedures Link to a Result Component and the sources available are
located where?: Procedure Specific Specimen Sources Screen (Ex Arm, Left
(43); Arm, Right (44) )
29. True or False: Referral display items can change based on the selected
order class.: True
30. What is the context of the OCC that includes the "pointer" referral display
item?: Ambulatory
, Epic AMB 400 Exam Questions and Answers
31. A physician requests that dynamic display items be set up for a medica-
tion based on the frequency (4 times daily versus 2 times daily). Will you be
able to do this?: No. Dynamic setup is only for referral procedures.
32. OCC-Referrals are linked where: Procedure category under the order com-
poser configeration screen
33. What for referrals can change display items?: Class
34. How many OCCs are needed for referral procedures?: 3
35. What are the 3 contexts needed for dynamic referral procedures?: -Ambu-
latory context; Internal referral- ambulatory context; -external-referral -ambulatory
context; (can also use 4th of incoming referral when organization receives faxed
referrals from external providers)
36. What contexts are needed for non-dynamic referral procedures?: ambu-
latory context; referral-ambulatory
37. What is Referral information for OCC?: Display item for OCC record; tells
system to check the linked referral context OCC to determine which referral-based
item to display
38. What is needed for an Internal referral-ambulatory OCC?: Ordering type:
Procedure; Ordering Context: Internal Referral-Ambulatory; Display Items
39. What is needed for an External referral-ambulatory OCC?: Ordering type:
Procedure; Ordering Context: External Referral-Ambulatory; Display Items
40. True or False: In order to document a historical immunization, you must
have a procedure record.: False
41. True or False: Questions can be linked to a procedure or an immuniza-
tion.: True
42. What is the abbreviation for immunizations on the immunizations activi-
ty?: LIM
43. Where are order-specific questions linked?: in the Procedure record; Ques-
tions are LQL
44. Where are the immunization activity-specific questions linked?: in the
Immunization record; Questions are LQL
45. What field in the procedure record is the immunization activity record
linked?: "Link to immunization" field
46. If you are building a procedure record to link to an immunization record,
what should you build first?: Immunization record
