Introduction to Clinical Reminders
(Baccalaureate) HBK
Knowledge Activity: Introduction to Clinical
Reminders (Baccalaureate)
Student instructions
1. If you have questions about this activity, please contact
your instructor for assistance.
2. You will review a de-identified chart to complete this
activity. Your instructor has provided you with a link to
the Introduction to Clinical Reminders (BS) activity. Click
on 2: Launch EHR to review the patient chart and begin
this activity.
3. Refer to the patient chart and any suggested resources to
complete this activity.
4. Document your answers directly on this activity
document as you complete the activity. When you are
finished, you will save this activity document to your
device and upload this activity document with your
answers to your Learning Management System (LMS).
Glossary
Clinical Reminders: The Clinical Reminder system is a built-in
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, Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system that allows the care
team to track and improve preventive healthcare and disease
treatment for patients and ensure that timely clinical
interventions are initiated. Clinical Reminders perform
automatic chart audits and schedule events based on pre-
programmed criteria. In other words, Clinical Reminders do a
chart review and tell clinicians what the patient needs, or
which patients need something.
Reminder Inquiry: A reminder-specific summary of the data
and criteria associated with an individual reminder.
Reminder Description/Rationale: The human-readable
description of the clinical purpose, intent, and
inclusion/exclusion criteria for the reminder.
Reminder Cohort: Patients included in a group who need an
intervention, e.g. “This patient needs a flu shot” or patients
to include on a report, “Show all patients who need flu
shots.”
Inclusion Criteria: The presence or absence of data that will
prompt the reminder to become “due” for a patient.
Exclusion Criteria: What will turn this reminder OFF? The
findings necessary to resolve the Reminder.
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(Baccalaureate) HBK
Knowledge Activity: Introduction to Clinical
Reminders (Baccalaureate)
Student instructions
1. If you have questions about this activity, please contact
your instructor for assistance.
2. You will review a de-identified chart to complete this
activity. Your instructor has provided you with a link to
the Introduction to Clinical Reminders (BS) activity. Click
on 2: Launch EHR to review the patient chart and begin
this activity.
3. Refer to the patient chart and any suggested resources to
complete this activity.
4. Document your answers directly on this activity
document as you complete the activity. When you are
finished, you will save this activity document to your
device and upload this activity document with your
answers to your Learning Management System (LMS).
Glossary
Clinical Reminders: The Clinical Reminder system is a built-in
1
, Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system that allows the care
team to track and improve preventive healthcare and disease
treatment for patients and ensure that timely clinical
interventions are initiated. Clinical Reminders perform
automatic chart audits and schedule events based on pre-
programmed criteria. In other words, Clinical Reminders do a
chart review and tell clinicians what the patient needs, or
which patients need something.
Reminder Inquiry: A reminder-specific summary of the data
and criteria associated with an individual reminder.
Reminder Description/Rationale: The human-readable
description of the clinical purpose, intent, and
inclusion/exclusion criteria for the reminder.
Reminder Cohort: Patients included in a group who need an
intervention, e.g. “This patient needs a flu shot” or patients
to include on a report, “Show all patients who need flu
shots.”
Inclusion Criteria: The presence or absence of data that will
prompt the reminder to become “due” for a patient.
Exclusion Criteria: What will turn this reminder OFF? The
findings necessary to resolve the Reminder.
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