CPL250(LAB350 & LAB400) BEAKER: CLINICAL PATHOLOGY
ADMINISTRATION QUESTIONS
Interface Engine - Answers - Has powerful tools for manipulating interface messages
Middle Tier Device - Answers - Helps route interface messages to appropriate
instrument.
Typically one per organization
An advance framework for managing interfaces with third party systems called... -
Answers - Bridges
Triggers - Answers - Applications that cause an event to happen (Some are hard coded,
and some are configurable based on workflow)
Mapping - Answers - Decides how values should be interpreted on an interface
Translation table - Answers - Takes a value and translates it to another value
Identity - Answers - Framework used for mapping master file records on interfaces
Facility (Chapter 2.3) - Answers - The most general, all-encompassing level in Epic and
refers to an entire organization or enterprise. (Backbone of the admin build)
Levels on which Beaker CP facility structure is organized... - Answers - Facility (LDF)-
>Laboratory->Section
Overall facility structure - Answers - Facility (General)->Service area->Location-
>Department->Room
->Bed(Specific)
HOD - Answers - Hospital Outpatient Department. Used in areas that schedule patient
appointments and admitted patients
Virtual Departments - Answers - Patients are not scheduled or admitted here
Outpatient Department - Answers - Used in areas that only schedule patient
appointments
Hospital Unit - Answers - Necessary for areas where patients are admitted
ADT(Admission, Discharge, and Transfer)
, Records for configuration hierarchy - Answers - Test>Lab>Facility. This means that to
find specific settings, the system will look to the test record first, then the laboratory
record, and finally the facility record.
Receiving extensions (2.7) - Answers - Used to prevent lab techs from receiving
specimens that do not meet certain criteria (i.e. missing information)
Receiving behavior (2.7) - Answers - Specify whether specimens should be received in
their destination lab or into the lab you are logged into(this is the default and
recommended option)
TAT Basis (2.7) - Answers - The TAT Basis field indicates how the turnaround time
should be calculated when a test is from one lab to another.
1. First Received Instant (When the test is first received into the initial lab)
2. Last Received Instant (When the test is last received into the final lab)
Default Turnaround Time (TAT) Values - Answers - The turnaround time you enter in
the TAT field reflects the amount of time that can elapse before results are expected for
tests of a certain priority
Clinical Administration - Answers - Set of text-based menus used to configure
applications (mouse does not work in this field)
Admins utilize this
Hyperspace - Answers - Graphical user interface (GUI) Used to configure and perform
end-user workflows
Clinical Administration & Hyperspace - Answers - Through these two applications is how
we see chronicles (epic's database management system)
Filing Cabinet - Answers - Chronicles - Epic's database management system; like a
filing cabinet , where all the information is stored
Master file - Answers - Drawer
Record - Answers - File in the drawer
Contact - Answers - A dated, or versioned, paper form
Item - Answers - A question on a paper form (name, sex, etc.)
An answer to a question on a paper form - Answers - Value
If you want to edit a record, how do you determine which record you should edit? -
Answers - You choose the most recent date provided
ADMINISTRATION QUESTIONS
Interface Engine - Answers - Has powerful tools for manipulating interface messages
Middle Tier Device - Answers - Helps route interface messages to appropriate
instrument.
Typically one per organization
An advance framework for managing interfaces with third party systems called... -
Answers - Bridges
Triggers - Answers - Applications that cause an event to happen (Some are hard coded,
and some are configurable based on workflow)
Mapping - Answers - Decides how values should be interpreted on an interface
Translation table - Answers - Takes a value and translates it to another value
Identity - Answers - Framework used for mapping master file records on interfaces
Facility (Chapter 2.3) - Answers - The most general, all-encompassing level in Epic and
refers to an entire organization or enterprise. (Backbone of the admin build)
Levels on which Beaker CP facility structure is organized... - Answers - Facility (LDF)-
>Laboratory->Section
Overall facility structure - Answers - Facility (General)->Service area->Location-
>Department->Room
->Bed(Specific)
HOD - Answers - Hospital Outpatient Department. Used in areas that schedule patient
appointments and admitted patients
Virtual Departments - Answers - Patients are not scheduled or admitted here
Outpatient Department - Answers - Used in areas that only schedule patient
appointments
Hospital Unit - Answers - Necessary for areas where patients are admitted
ADT(Admission, Discharge, and Transfer)
, Records for configuration hierarchy - Answers - Test>Lab>Facility. This means that to
find specific settings, the system will look to the test record first, then the laboratory
record, and finally the facility record.
Receiving extensions (2.7) - Answers - Used to prevent lab techs from receiving
specimens that do not meet certain criteria (i.e. missing information)
Receiving behavior (2.7) - Answers - Specify whether specimens should be received in
their destination lab or into the lab you are logged into(this is the default and
recommended option)
TAT Basis (2.7) - Answers - The TAT Basis field indicates how the turnaround time
should be calculated when a test is from one lab to another.
1. First Received Instant (When the test is first received into the initial lab)
2. Last Received Instant (When the test is last received into the final lab)
Default Turnaround Time (TAT) Values - Answers - The turnaround time you enter in
the TAT field reflects the amount of time that can elapse before results are expected for
tests of a certain priority
Clinical Administration - Answers - Set of text-based menus used to configure
applications (mouse does not work in this field)
Admins utilize this
Hyperspace - Answers - Graphical user interface (GUI) Used to configure and perform
end-user workflows
Clinical Administration & Hyperspace - Answers - Through these two applications is how
we see chronicles (epic's database management system)
Filing Cabinet - Answers - Chronicles - Epic's database management system; like a
filing cabinet , where all the information is stored
Master file - Answers - Drawer
Record - Answers - File in the drawer
Contact - Answers - A dated, or versioned, paper form
Item - Answers - A question on a paper form (name, sex, etc.)
An answer to a question on a paper form - Answers - Value
If you want to edit a record, how do you determine which record you should edit? -
Answers - You choose the most recent date provided
