Epic Systems Study Guide and Key Concepts
ASAP ER Module - ANS✔✔ Managing ER visits:
-tracks which rooms are occupied
-Bed/room status
EpicCare Ambulatory - ANS✔✔ Primary Care and Specialty clinicians :
document visits, place orders, send prescriptions, perform in-office procedures, review results,
and send communications to patients.
EpicCare Inpatient (ClinDoc) - ANS✔✔ EpicCare Inpatient, also known as ClinDoc is much like
EpicCare Ambulatory, except that the clinical tasks are done in the hospital on admitted
patients. This includes clinical notes, orders, medication administration, patient monitoring, and
discharge orders.
Epic Beacon Oncology - ANS✔✔ Chemotherapy module in the Epic system. It is built around
treatment plans for patients who are undergoing cancer treatment.
Epic Bugsy (Infection Control) - ANS✔✔ Infection Control Module:
- monitors patients at risk for infection, identifies patients needing isolation & with
antimicrobial processes.
Integrates with Beaker & Lab
Epic Bones - ANS✔✔ Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Epic Beaker - ANS✔✔ laboratory system for a hospital lab. Orders that are placed either in other
parts of Epic or in an external system are transmitted to Beaker via an HL7 Interface1 for
, processing. When patients arrive to have their blood drawn, the results are entered into Beaker,
which then get transmitted back to the ordering doctor.
Epic Bridges - ANS✔✔ module for installing, configuring and maintaining interfaces to systems
outside of Epic. There are tools to set up the interface connections either to or from other
interfaces, as well as monitoring of interface messages. Bridges supports HL7 interfaces, as well
as other communications protocols.
* HL7 - ANS✔✔ Health Level Seven or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer
of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare
providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is "layer 7" in the OSI model.
Epic Caboodle - aka Cogito Data Warehouse - ANS✔✔ The data warehouse and analytical tools
used to store and retrieve large amounts of clinical data. The data can be queried to provide all
manner of reporting to support care decisions, manage costs, and identify trends. Other data
can be brought in from non-Epic systems, and then used along with Epic data to provide
reporting results. Until mid-2016, the trade name for these tools was Cogito, from the Latin
phrase ergo sum: "I think, therefore I am". In mid-2016, Epic renamed it to "Cabooble", ie Kit &
Caboodle. Get it?
Epic Cadence - ANS✔✔ Scheduling module for Outpatient and Specialty clinics. Any time you
have an appointment with your doctor, their scheduling staff will use Cadence to book your
appointment, then check you in on arrival. The physicians and other staff are able to see the
schedule for the whole clinic, or just for their own patients. Many scheduling functions are
performed from the Epic Snapboard, which is configured to show appointments for multiple
providers in a department
Epic Care Companion - ANS✔✔ Care Companion is an extension of the MyChart patient portal.
It provides health coaching, education, and reminders to patients via MyChart to help them
manage complex health conditions. For example, a patient with diabetes would get reminders
to take medications on time, get lab work done, schedule periodic eye and foot exams, and
monitor their diet and glucose.
ASAP ER Module - ANS✔✔ Managing ER visits:
-tracks which rooms are occupied
-Bed/room status
EpicCare Ambulatory - ANS✔✔ Primary Care and Specialty clinicians :
document visits, place orders, send prescriptions, perform in-office procedures, review results,
and send communications to patients.
EpicCare Inpatient (ClinDoc) - ANS✔✔ EpicCare Inpatient, also known as ClinDoc is much like
EpicCare Ambulatory, except that the clinical tasks are done in the hospital on admitted
patients. This includes clinical notes, orders, medication administration, patient monitoring, and
discharge orders.
Epic Beacon Oncology - ANS✔✔ Chemotherapy module in the Epic system. It is built around
treatment plans for patients who are undergoing cancer treatment.
Epic Bugsy (Infection Control) - ANS✔✔ Infection Control Module:
- monitors patients at risk for infection, identifies patients needing isolation & with
antimicrobial processes.
Integrates with Beaker & Lab
Epic Bones - ANS✔✔ Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Epic Beaker - ANS✔✔ laboratory system for a hospital lab. Orders that are placed either in other
parts of Epic or in an external system are transmitted to Beaker via an HL7 Interface1 for
, processing. When patients arrive to have their blood drawn, the results are entered into Beaker,
which then get transmitted back to the ordering doctor.
Epic Bridges - ANS✔✔ module for installing, configuring and maintaining interfaces to systems
outside of Epic. There are tools to set up the interface connections either to or from other
interfaces, as well as monitoring of interface messages. Bridges supports HL7 interfaces, as well
as other communications protocols.
* HL7 - ANS✔✔ Health Level Seven or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer
of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare
providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is "layer 7" in the OSI model.
Epic Caboodle - aka Cogito Data Warehouse - ANS✔✔ The data warehouse and analytical tools
used to store and retrieve large amounts of clinical data. The data can be queried to provide all
manner of reporting to support care decisions, manage costs, and identify trends. Other data
can be brought in from non-Epic systems, and then used along with Epic data to provide
reporting results. Until mid-2016, the trade name for these tools was Cogito, from the Latin
phrase ergo sum: "I think, therefore I am". In mid-2016, Epic renamed it to "Cabooble", ie Kit &
Caboodle. Get it?
Epic Cadence - ANS✔✔ Scheduling module for Outpatient and Specialty clinics. Any time you
have an appointment with your doctor, their scheduling staff will use Cadence to book your
appointment, then check you in on arrival. The physicians and other staff are able to see the
schedule for the whole clinic, or just for their own patients. Many scheduling functions are
performed from the Epic Snapboard, which is configured to show appointments for multiple
providers in a department
Epic Care Companion - ANS✔✔ Care Companion is an extension of the MyChart patient portal.
It provides health coaching, education, and reminders to patients via MyChart to help them
manage complex health conditions. For example, a patient with diabetes would get reminders
to take medications on time, get lab work done, schedule periodic eye and foot exams, and
monitor their diet and glucose.
