Clinical Workflow Fundamentals Flashcards
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Which Epic feature allows a provider to document a telephone encounter with a patient who calls the clinic?
Answer: Telephone encounter type in scheduling
A telephone encounter is a specific encounter type that creates a billable, documentable record of a phone-based patient interaction.
What is the purpose of the 'Best Practice Advisory' (BPA) in Epic clinical workflows?
Answer: To alert clinicians to evidence-based recommendations or potential safety issues
BPAs are configurable alerts that fire when clinical logic detects a potential gap in care, safety risk, or guideline deviation.
A patient's allergy to penicillin is documented in Epic. When a provider orders amoxicillin, what clinical decision support feature fires?
Answer: A drug-allergy interaction alert
Epic's drug-allergy checking compares ordered medications against the patient's documented allergy list and alerts the provider to cross-reactive drugs.
Which workflow in Epic is used to document a patient's consent for a procedure?
Answer: Media tab or Consent activity
Informed consent documentation is captured in the Media tab or a dedicated Consent activity, linking the signed document to the patient's chart.
During an inpatient stay, a nurse notes a new symptom not currently on the problem list. What is the appropriate Epic workflow?
Answer: Notify the provider via In Basket and document in nursing notes
Nurses document new findings in nursing notes and notify providers through In Basket; providers then decide whether to add items to the problem list.
What does the Epic 'Snapshot' or 'Patient Summary' provide to an incoming provider?
Answer: A condensed overview of key patient information for quick situational awareness
The Patient Summary or Snapshot consolidates vital signs, active problems, medications, allergies, and recent results into a single view for rapid review.
A provider wants to reuse a previous note structure for a similar visit type. Which Epic feature supports this most efficiently?
Answer: Copy-forward a previous note using SmartTools
SmartTools such as SmartText and the copy-forward feature allow providers to pull in prior note content and update it efficiently.