EPIC Questions & Answers(RATED A+)

ASAP ER Module - ANSWERManaging ER visits: -tracks which rooms are occupied -Bed/room status EpicCare Ambulatory - ANSWERPrimary Care and Specialty clinicians : document visits, place orders, send prescriptions, perform in-office procedures, review results, and send communications to patients. EpicCare Inpatient (ClinDoc) - ANSWEREpicCare 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 - ANSWERChemotherapy module in the Epic system. It is built around treatment plans for patients who are undergoing cancer treatment. Epic Bugsy (Infection Control) - ANSWERInfection Control Module: - monitors patients at risk for infection, identifies patients needing isolation & with antimicrobial processes. Integrates with Beaker & Lab Epic Bones - ANSWEROrthopedics and Sports Medicine Epic Beaker - ANSWERlaboratory 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 - ANSWERmodule 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 - ANSWERHealth 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 - ANSWERThe 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