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Facility Structure - Answer A facility record represents your entire organization. Settings in
more specific levels can override settings
in the facility record. For example, the letters the system generates for appointments are set
system‐wide,
but an individual department can specify different letters to use for appointments in that
department.
Service Area - Answer Service areas represent separate business entities within your
organization. Service areas exist mainly for
Epic's billing applications. Each service area tracks its Accounts Receivable separately. Service
areas can
also prohibit staff in individual locations from accessing other locations' confidential
information, such as
revenue data. Settings made here will override settings in a facility record.
Each service area is linked to the facility.
Revenue Location - Answer Revenue locations, also referred to simply as locations, represent
clinics and hospitals. Revenue reporting
can happen at this level and settings made here will override settings in service area or facility
records.
In clinical areas, each revenue location is linked to a service area.
Department - Answer Departments represent places where users log in and where patients
receive care at your organization.
The department impacts Cupid build in several ways:
Departments determine where procedures are scheduled and performed.
Providers and resources are only schedulable in specific departments.
Schedules of availability are specific to both a provider/resource and a department.
Imaging System Definitions - Answer CV System Definitions is a cardiology‐specific set of
Imaging System Definitions ﴾RDF﴿ that will affect all
,cardiology department record.
What types of settings does a profile control? - Answer Details within activities
(e.g. Preference Lists, Chart Review tabs, Print Group reports)
Technical Charge - Answer Covers the cost of using equipment, facilities, non‐physician
medical staff,
supplies, etc.
Professional Charge - Answer Covers the cost of the physician's professional services.
Global Charge - Answer Covers both technical and professional services; more often utilized in
clinics than in hospitals
HOD - Answer Hospital Outpatient Department
4 ways to Import Records into Chronicles - Answer Export records to an Excel spreadsheet.
Populate the spreadsheet, either making changes to existing records and/or creating new
records.
Run the Epic export macro to create a text file from the spreadsheet.
Scan and import the text file into Chronicles.
Users who log into the TRNCV## Cardiac Cath department want to see invasive
cardiologyspecific
reports. Which record will you need to link to this department to meet this need? - Answer
Profile (LPR)
Which level of the facility structure represents a
physical place of service, like a clinic or a
hospital? - Answer Revenue Location
What do the settings on the Context‐Based
,that see inpatients and outpatients? - Answer Hospital Outpatient Departments
What are some differences between configuring
departments for non‐invasive areas vs. invasive
areas? - Answer Invasive departments typically do not
require settings on the context‐based
charging screen.
Different profiles need to be linked, since
non‐invasive and invasive users want
different details within activities.
A setting exists in a facility record and in a department record. The setting is configured
differently in the
department than it is in the facility record.
True or False: The setting in the facility record will override the setting in the department
record. - Answer False
Enterprise Health System has one hospital and one clinic. The clinic performs a variety of non‐
invasive and
cardiac catheterization procedures. The hospital performs non‐invasive, cardiac cath, and EP
procedures.
n Epic, how many departments will you have to create in the clinic? Choose only ONE answer.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 6
e. 7 - Answer B
In Epic, how many departments will you have to create in the hospital? Choose only ONE
answer.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
, Release Date - Answer The release date is the last date on which appointments may be
scheduled. The schedule is
released, or available, for scheduling until the release date. The release date is a specific,
static date in the future, such as June 24.
Setting the release date controls how far into the future staff can schedule appointments. It
also allows you to work on and revise future templates before releasing them to your staff
for use.
Default Slot Length - Answer The default slot length controls how many slots should be
created when you indicate
availability during a certain time frame. For example, for any given hour that a provider is
available, should that hour be broken into four 15‐minute slots, or three 20 ‐minute slots?
Default slot lengths can be set in any multiple of 5 minutes.
Limitations of Indefinite End Date - Answer Can only be used when you select a weekly
recurrence.
Only appropriate for a schedule that does not use recurring unavailable time.
Patient‐level blocks - Answer used to restrict time on the schedule to a certain type of
patients.
These blocks keep the wrong type of patients out
Visit type blocks - Answer used to reserve time for specific types of visits. Visit type blocks are
more restrictive than patient‐level blocks: they keep the right type of appointment in the
blocked slots.
Scheduling Pools - Answer Scheduling pools allow you to group
together multiple modalities with which patients can be scheduled for non ‐invasive procedures.
Which of your provider records need templates? - Answer All providers who will be scheduled
with patients
(human and modality)