CLR 110 - CLARITY DATA MODEL
FUNDAMENTALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
What is the first step in the report writing process? - ANSWER-Analyze request for key
features...
-Who needs it
-What purpose
-How much data should it return
-How up to date does the data need to be
-How does the data need to be formatted
The most important decision of the report writing process is... - ANSWER-Which
reporting tool can best be used to meet the reporting need
In general, Operational Reports share the following key characteristics: - ANSWER-1.
Time-sensitive
2. Relatively small
3. Easily accessible
* Actionable
____ _____ generally put more emphasis on filtering out unnecessary information than
they do on showing a comprehensive picture. - ANSWER-Operational reports
What is the difference between operational and analytical reports? - ANSWER-
Operational reports are real-time reports needed by end users to do their jobs.
Analytical reports are over-time reports that show long-term trends and data.
Why should you use Clarity for analytical reporting needs? - ANSWER-Clarity reports
can be run over very large data sets without slowing down your production server.
They also can include complex grouping and mathematics, and can be used to do
integrated reporting on Epic and non-Epic data.
Why should you not use Clarity for operational reporting needs? - ANSWER-Most
importantly, Clarity data is not real-time, so any operational reports built from Clarity
data will be out-of-date from the moment they're generated.
They also cannot be used interactively, such as in a workflow where the report jumps a
user to a patient's chart.
,You have a reporting need, and there is no pre-built application report to meet it. Do you
need to use Clarity to meet this need? - ANSWER-Not necessarily. Reporting
Workbench can be used for many non-standard reporting needs.
Would the following report be an operational or analytical report?
Create a report that counts the number of logs each surgeon has been documented as
performing in during the past year. Display the log ID, the name of the surgeon, and the
log's primary procedure. - ANSWER-Analytical report
The report should display all patient encounters where the patient was less than 18
years old at the time of the encounter. The report should be grouped by the primary visit
provider, and then by patient. Visits without a visit provider should be excluded. For
each provider, the report should show the provider's name. For each patient, the report
should show the patient's name, primary MRN, and sex. For each encounter, the report
should show the date of the encounter, the patient's age at the time of the encounter,
and the patient's weight at the time of the encounter.
Is this report operational or analytical? - ANSWER-Analytical.
Time frame for this report is unclear
If the requester followed up saying that the report would only be run for the last five
days, the report could be considered operational.
The report should display all patient encounters where the patient was less than 18
years old at the time of the encounter. The report should be grouped by the primary visit
provider, and then by patient. Visits without a visit provider should be excluded. For
each provider, the report should show the provider's name. For each patient, the report
should show the patient's name, primary MRN, and sex. For each encounter, the report
should show the date of the encounter, the patient's age at the time of the encounter,
and the patient's weight at the time of the encounter.
What reporting tool would you use to create this report? - ANSWER-Crystal Reports.
Operational or Analytical?
Surgical procedures conducted over the past year, by physician - ANSWER-Analytical
Operational or Analytical?
Pending departmental transfers - ANSWER-Operational
Operational or Analytical?
Wait times for patients currently in the ED - ANSWER-Operational
Operational or Analytical?
, Top 100 Chief Complaints in the ED - ANSWER-Analytical
When faced with an analytical reporting need, there's generally one tool of choice: -
ANSWER-Clarity
_____ is a tool that extracts data from your Chronicles production system, transforms it
into a relational format, and loads it onto a separate reporting server - ANSWER-Clarity
Consider the example reporting request:
Total number of appointments scheduled in each of your clinics over the last year,
broken down by clinic and showing the average length of each clinic's appointments
You might try to attack this reporting need using the operational reporting tools
discussed above, but you'd likely run into two problems: - ANSWER-Performance - over
a year's worth of data /a significant drain on system resources
Flexibility - total number and average length of appointments in each clinic. Operational
reports generally do not display summary information.
These reports are integrated into Epic's applications as part of the workflow, and are by
far the tools end users are most familiar with. - ANSWER-Application Reports
____ _____ is a standardized operational reporting tool that can provide a similar look-
and-feel to reports across applications. - ANSWER-Reporting Workbench
Almost every Epic application releases standard Reporting Workbench report
templates, including _____, _____, and _____ applications - ANSWER-1. Clinical
2. Billing
3. Access
True or False
It is possible to substantially modify a Reporting Workbench template or even to create
a new one from scratch - ANSWER-True
Because Reporting Workbench is integrated into Hyperspace, it can be acted on just
like an ____ _____ - ANSWER-Application Report
_____ is the programming language on which Chronicles is built - ANSWER-Caché
Script
A custom _____ report has almost limitless flexibility, and in many cases can be
optimized for much better speed at a certain task than another tool can provide. -
ANSWER-Caché
FUNDAMENTALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
What is the first step in the report writing process? - ANSWER-Analyze request for key
features...
-Who needs it
-What purpose
-How much data should it return
-How up to date does the data need to be
-How does the data need to be formatted
The most important decision of the report writing process is... - ANSWER-Which
reporting tool can best be used to meet the reporting need
In general, Operational Reports share the following key characteristics: - ANSWER-1.
Time-sensitive
2. Relatively small
3. Easily accessible
* Actionable
____ _____ generally put more emphasis on filtering out unnecessary information than
they do on showing a comprehensive picture. - ANSWER-Operational reports
What is the difference between operational and analytical reports? - ANSWER-
Operational reports are real-time reports needed by end users to do their jobs.
Analytical reports are over-time reports that show long-term trends and data.
Why should you use Clarity for analytical reporting needs? - ANSWER-Clarity reports
can be run over very large data sets without slowing down your production server.
They also can include complex grouping and mathematics, and can be used to do
integrated reporting on Epic and non-Epic data.
Why should you not use Clarity for operational reporting needs? - ANSWER-Most
importantly, Clarity data is not real-time, so any operational reports built from Clarity
data will be out-of-date from the moment they're generated.
They also cannot be used interactively, such as in a workflow where the report jumps a
user to a patient's chart.
,You have a reporting need, and there is no pre-built application report to meet it. Do you
need to use Clarity to meet this need? - ANSWER-Not necessarily. Reporting
Workbench can be used for many non-standard reporting needs.
Would the following report be an operational or analytical report?
Create a report that counts the number of logs each surgeon has been documented as
performing in during the past year. Display the log ID, the name of the surgeon, and the
log's primary procedure. - ANSWER-Analytical report
The report should display all patient encounters where the patient was less than 18
years old at the time of the encounter. The report should be grouped by the primary visit
provider, and then by patient. Visits without a visit provider should be excluded. For
each provider, the report should show the provider's name. For each patient, the report
should show the patient's name, primary MRN, and sex. For each encounter, the report
should show the date of the encounter, the patient's age at the time of the encounter,
and the patient's weight at the time of the encounter.
Is this report operational or analytical? - ANSWER-Analytical.
Time frame for this report is unclear
If the requester followed up saying that the report would only be run for the last five
days, the report could be considered operational.
The report should display all patient encounters where the patient was less than 18
years old at the time of the encounter. The report should be grouped by the primary visit
provider, and then by patient. Visits without a visit provider should be excluded. For
each provider, the report should show the provider's name. For each patient, the report
should show the patient's name, primary MRN, and sex. For each encounter, the report
should show the date of the encounter, the patient's age at the time of the encounter,
and the patient's weight at the time of the encounter.
What reporting tool would you use to create this report? - ANSWER-Crystal Reports.
Operational or Analytical?
Surgical procedures conducted over the past year, by physician - ANSWER-Analytical
Operational or Analytical?
Pending departmental transfers - ANSWER-Operational
Operational or Analytical?
Wait times for patients currently in the ED - ANSWER-Operational
Operational or Analytical?
, Top 100 Chief Complaints in the ED - ANSWER-Analytical
When faced with an analytical reporting need, there's generally one tool of choice: -
ANSWER-Clarity
_____ is a tool that extracts data from your Chronicles production system, transforms it
into a relational format, and loads it onto a separate reporting server - ANSWER-Clarity
Consider the example reporting request:
Total number of appointments scheduled in each of your clinics over the last year,
broken down by clinic and showing the average length of each clinic's appointments
You might try to attack this reporting need using the operational reporting tools
discussed above, but you'd likely run into two problems: - ANSWER-Performance - over
a year's worth of data /a significant drain on system resources
Flexibility - total number and average length of appointments in each clinic. Operational
reports generally do not display summary information.
These reports are integrated into Epic's applications as part of the workflow, and are by
far the tools end users are most familiar with. - ANSWER-Application Reports
____ _____ is a standardized operational reporting tool that can provide a similar look-
and-feel to reports across applications. - ANSWER-Reporting Workbench
Almost every Epic application releases standard Reporting Workbench report
templates, including _____, _____, and _____ applications - ANSWER-1. Clinical
2. Billing
3. Access
True or False
It is possible to substantially modify a Reporting Workbench template or even to create
a new one from scratch - ANSWER-True
Because Reporting Workbench is integrated into Hyperspace, it can be acted on just
like an ____ _____ - ANSWER-Application Report
_____ is the programming language on which Chronicles is built - ANSWER-Caché
Script
A custom _____ report has almost limitless flexibility, and in many cases can be
optimized for much better speed at a certain task than another tool can provide. -
ANSWER-Caché
