EPIC CLN 251/252 END OF COURSE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Contacts - ✔✔A date specific snapshot of the data within a record that allows for
changes to the record to be effective on a specific date. Analogy- Dated sheets of paper
in the folder. For patients think of each encounter
✔✔Item - ✔✔A question prompt on a standardized form
✔✔Value - ✔✔An answer
✔✔Item numbers that always stay the same - ✔✔.1 ID and .2 record name
✔✔Single response - ✔✔Only one value can be entered
✔✔Multiple response - ✔✔Can enter multiple values for one item
✔✔INI - ✔✔Master file
✔✔Dynamic vs static records - ✔✔Dynamic: Records that are created based on user
documentation. Generally related to storing patient data, so they are constantly growing.
Static: Records that are built by builders. Can change over time but are modified and
managed by builders.
✔✔Multiple related tables - ✔✔When the information in the items in the table are all
related to each other. I.e. Pt related name, number, address etc.
✔✔Print Groups (LPG) - ✔✔Determines what information displays and how that
information is formatted. Print groups get their information from Chronicles by looking at
specific items and the values that are stored in those items
✔✔Steps to edit a report - ✔✔1. Determine how a report needs to change. 2. Identify
the report record you want to edit. 3. Identify (or create) the print groups that need to be
added, edited, or removed. 4. Edit the report by adding, modifying, or removing print
groups as needed. 5. Confirm that the report is linked in the appropriate place so that it
affects the desired users.
✔✔Profile Hierarchy - ✔✔Profiles can be linked at six different levels in the profile
hierarchy. Where a profile is linked in the hierarchy determines its impact.
✔✔User/User Template - ✔✔For profile settings common to a specialized group of
users.
, ✔✔EpicCare Security Class - ✔✔For profile settings common to people with the same
job duties or scope of practice, like all ambulatory physicians or all pharmacy
technicians.
✔✔Login Department - ✔✔For profile settings common to people who have different job
duties but who work in the same department.
✔✔Login Revenue Location - ✔✔For profile settings common to everyone who works in
a particular hospital or clinic, regardless of job duties.
✔✔Login Service Area - ✔✔For profile settings common to everyone who works in a
particular billing region or group of hospitals and/or clinics, regardless of job duties.
✔✔EMR System Definitions - ✔✔For global profile settings that apply to every clinical
user in your system unless overridden at a more specific level.
✔✔Compiled Profile - ✔✔Represents the collection of profile settings that will impact a
user
✔✔Rule of Specificity - ✔✔Settings that are at a more specific level take precedence
over the same settings at a more general level
✔✔Reports - ✔✔Incorporated into several activities across clinical applications.
Examples: Schedule reports, synopsis views, chart review reports for each type of
encounter, available reports in the patient lists
✔✔Orders-related Settings - ✔✔Orders preference lists, default order mode, such as
verbal, which order types require an associated diagnosis, whether the system tries to
have ordering and/or authorizing provider appear by default when placing an order,
when validation extensions are checked when signing an order
✔✔Workflow Engine Rules - ✔✔A set of conditions that will change a patient workspace
based on certain conditions
✔✔Facility Structure - ✔✔Linked hierarchy of Chronicles records that represent different
aspects of your enterprise. Department > Revenue location > Service area > Facility
✔✔Facility - ✔✔Record #1 in the Facility (EAF) master file is the facility record. There is
only one facility.
✔✔Service Area - ✔✔Represents the accounts receivable and/or business entities of
your organization. Exists for the purposes of Epic's billing applications.
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Contacts - ✔✔A date specific snapshot of the data within a record that allows for
changes to the record to be effective on a specific date. Analogy- Dated sheets of paper
in the folder. For patients think of each encounter
✔✔Item - ✔✔A question prompt on a standardized form
✔✔Value - ✔✔An answer
✔✔Item numbers that always stay the same - ✔✔.1 ID and .2 record name
✔✔Single response - ✔✔Only one value can be entered
✔✔Multiple response - ✔✔Can enter multiple values for one item
✔✔INI - ✔✔Master file
✔✔Dynamic vs static records - ✔✔Dynamic: Records that are created based on user
documentation. Generally related to storing patient data, so they are constantly growing.
Static: Records that are built by builders. Can change over time but are modified and
managed by builders.
✔✔Multiple related tables - ✔✔When the information in the items in the table are all
related to each other. I.e. Pt related name, number, address etc.
✔✔Print Groups (LPG) - ✔✔Determines what information displays and how that
information is formatted. Print groups get their information from Chronicles by looking at
specific items and the values that are stored in those items
✔✔Steps to edit a report - ✔✔1. Determine how a report needs to change. 2. Identify
the report record you want to edit. 3. Identify (or create) the print groups that need to be
added, edited, or removed. 4. Edit the report by adding, modifying, or removing print
groups as needed. 5. Confirm that the report is linked in the appropriate place so that it
affects the desired users.
✔✔Profile Hierarchy - ✔✔Profiles can be linked at six different levels in the profile
hierarchy. Where a profile is linked in the hierarchy determines its impact.
✔✔User/User Template - ✔✔For profile settings common to a specialized group of
users.
, ✔✔EpicCare Security Class - ✔✔For profile settings common to people with the same
job duties or scope of practice, like all ambulatory physicians or all pharmacy
technicians.
✔✔Login Department - ✔✔For profile settings common to people who have different job
duties but who work in the same department.
✔✔Login Revenue Location - ✔✔For profile settings common to everyone who works in
a particular hospital or clinic, regardless of job duties.
✔✔Login Service Area - ✔✔For profile settings common to everyone who works in a
particular billing region or group of hospitals and/or clinics, regardless of job duties.
✔✔EMR System Definitions - ✔✔For global profile settings that apply to every clinical
user in your system unless overridden at a more specific level.
✔✔Compiled Profile - ✔✔Represents the collection of profile settings that will impact a
user
✔✔Rule of Specificity - ✔✔Settings that are at a more specific level take precedence
over the same settings at a more general level
✔✔Reports - ✔✔Incorporated into several activities across clinical applications.
Examples: Schedule reports, synopsis views, chart review reports for each type of
encounter, available reports in the patient lists
✔✔Orders-related Settings - ✔✔Orders preference lists, default order mode, such as
verbal, which order types require an associated diagnosis, whether the system tries to
have ordering and/or authorizing provider appear by default when placing an order,
when validation extensions are checked when signing an order
✔✔Workflow Engine Rules - ✔✔A set of conditions that will change a patient workspace
based on certain conditions
✔✔Facility Structure - ✔✔Linked hierarchy of Chronicles records that represent different
aspects of your enterprise. Department > Revenue location > Service area > Facility
✔✔Facility - ✔✔Record #1 in the Facility (EAF) master file is the facility record. There is
only one facility.
✔✔Service Area - ✔✔Represents the accounts receivable and/or business entities of
your organization. Exists for the purposes of Epic's billing applications.
