Mixed Deck — All Epic Skills Assessment Topics Flashcards
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In Epic's security model, what is the difference between a 'Security Class' and a 'SubTemplate'?
Answer: A Security Class defines what a user can access, while a SubTemplate is a reusable component that can be embedded in multiple Security Classes
Security Classes define the overall access profile for a user type, and SubTemplates are modular, reusable security building blocks that can be shared across multiple Security Classes.
A patient's chart shows their weight decreased from 180 lbs to 162 lbs. What is the percentage decrease?
Answer: 10%
(180 − 162) ÷ 180 × 100 = 10% decrease.
A physician in Epic wants to view all of a patient's outstanding orders from any department before discharging. Which feature best supports this?
Answer: Discharge Navigator
The Discharge Navigator in Epic consolidates pending orders, pending results, and outstanding tasks to help physicians safely discharge patients.
Which of the following best describes 'Hyperspace' in the Epic ecosystem?
Answer: The main client application that end users interact with
Hyperspace is Epic's primary end-user application — the interface clinicians and staff use daily to access patient records and workflows.
In Epic, which term describes the structured list of a patient's active health issues maintained across encounters?
Answer: Problem List
The Problem List is a persistent, longitudinal record of a patient's diagnosed conditions that carries forward across all encounters.
What is the purpose of the 'Epic Rover' application in the context of software development and testing?
Answer: A mobile application for nurses to perform bedside documentation and scanning workflows
Epic Rover is a mobile application designed for bedside clinical workflows including medication administration scanning and patient documentation, and developers must test barcode and workflow scenarios within it.
In a hospital clinical workflow, what is a 'care team' in the EHR context?
Answer: The multidisciplinary group of providers assigned to a patient, with defined roles and communication responsibilities tracked in the EHR
In an EHR, the care team is the documented group of providers (attending, consultants, nurses, therapists, case managers) responsible for a patient. The EHR tracks roles, enables secure messaging between team members, and routes alerts appropriately.
In FictoScript, what does `filter(fn(x) => x mod 2 == 0, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])` return?
Answer: [2, 4, 6]
`filter` keeps only elements where the predicate returns true; here, even numbers pass the `mod 2 == 0` check.
A nurse receives an In Basket message from a physician requesting that she discontinue a patient's IV heparin drip. The nurse is unfamiliar with this patient. What should she do first?
Answer: Pull up the patient's chart in Epic and review current anticoagulation status before acting
Before acting on any clinical instruction, the nurse must review the patient's current chart to understand context and ensure the action is safe.
Which of the following is NOT a valid reason to choose an iterative solution over a recursive one?
Answer: The iterative version always has better time complexity
Iteration and recursion can express the same algorithms; iterative versions don't automatically have better time complexity.
In Epic, 'Coverage Discovery' is primarily used to:
Answer: Search for unknown or unreported patient insurance coverage
Coverage Discovery queries external databases to find active insurance plans a patient may not have reported.
Which HIPAA rule specifically governs the security of electronic protected health information (ePHI)?
Answer: The Security Rule
The HIPAA Security Rule establishes national standards to protect ePHI that is created, received, used, or maintained by covered entities.
Do the math?
Answer: 1
Without the specific mathematical problem provided in the question text, it is impossible to show the exact steps to arrive at the answer. However, the correct answer of '1' suggests a simple calculation that results in this value, such as 5 - 4 or 10 / 10, which would have been presented in the original context.
What is a 'scheduling hold' or 'bump' list in surgical or procedural scheduling?
Answer: A list of lower-priority cases that may be displaced if a higher-priority case (emergency/add-on) requires the scheduled time slot
Bump (or hold) lists manage OR and procedure suite capacity. When an emergency or urgent add-on case requires a scheduled slot, elective cases on the bump list are displaced (bumped). Patients on bump lists are notified and rescheduled promptly.
An analyst is performing a gap analysis comparing a hospital's current Epic build to a newly defined future-state workflow. What does a 'gap' represent in this context?
Answer: A difference between the current system configuration and what is needed to support the desired workflow
A gap is the delta between the current state and the future-state requirement, identifying what must be built, changed, or retired.
A patient's fluid intake over 8 hours was: 250 mL, 180 mL, 310 mL, 200 mL, 160 mL, 220 mL, 190 mL, 240 mL. What is the total intake?
Answer: 1,750 mL
250+180+310+200+160+220+190+240 = 1,750 mL.
What comes next in the series: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, ?
Answer: 42
The differences between terms are 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, so the next term is 30 + 12 = 42.
What is the worst-case time complexity of quicksort?
Answer: O(n²)
Quicksort degrades to O(n²) when the pivot is always the smallest or largest element (e.g., already-sorted input with a naive pivot).
What information does a 'Visit Type' in Epic primarily define?
Answer: The duration, department, and purpose of the appointment
Visit types in Epic define the appointment's duration, the department it routes to, and its clinical purpose, guiding the scheduling template.
A patient record reads: 'Allergies: PCN (rash). Current medications: Amoxicillin.' What concern does this information raise?
Answer: Amoxicillin is a penicillin-class antibiotic and may cause an allergic reaction.
Amoxicillin belongs to the penicillin class, so a documented PCN allergy creates a clinically significant concern.