Here are my posts on Informatics and EHR (electronic health records).
Epic go live and Ukulele at Campbell County Health System, Gillette, Wyoming
New Epic EHR go live, new song. Today: Campbell County Bighorn Mountain High, with apologies to John Denver. Congratulations to our newest affiliate, Campbell County Health System, we look forward to our close clinical collaboration.
UCHealth joins the Epic COSMOS family. Datathon! Ukulele Parody!
This past week, we hosted our Epic Wisconsin colleagues for an immersion trip on Slicer Dicer and COSMOS, as our researchers, data scientists and faculty dove deeply into Slicer Dicer and the finer points of exploring the deidentified Cosmos database of over 300 million patients. We can’t wait to join the growing list of scientists drawing new lessons from a global repository of clinical care experience.
XGM FOMO generator #22. Cool colleagues and Deep Space
Epic-famous people, and me!
XGM FOMO generator #21. UCHealth OPA Style guide.
Why is a style guide important? Because your clinicians and informaticists will give your analysts highly variable requests that will result in an inconsistent kitchen-sink appearance. This is the voice of experience.
XGM FOMO #21. Cupid compact forms
We are installing Cupid. Compact forms are the next new thing. Enjoyed learning about Mass General Brigham and their journey ahead of us.
XGM FOMO generator #20. Nested order panels EZ Rx @Common Spirit
Love this idea: simple build to save a lot of time: order panels for rx, with nested logic and explanatory text to allow for transparency: docs can see how you built it, account for renal function, penicillin allergy, diagnoses, etc. Very well accepted! Thanks to Dale Gold and the Common Spirit team.
XGM FOMO generator #19: Epic art
Always great to see the art on the Epic Verona campus. How many of these 15 art pieces have you seen? Let me know!
XGM FOMO generator #18. The UCHealth-Colorado floor badge at Epic
I love the Epic tradition of placing a badge on the floor in Deep Space when our organization joined the Epic community. Shown here, CT vainly trying to get team members to pose by our badge.
XGM FOMO generator #17. Cassiopeian Jazz ensemble
Received an insider hot tip that some Epic folks were doing a jazz concert in Cassiopeia. About a dozen of us found out, including the everywhere-all-at-once Mark Mabus. What a joy to work with Renaissance women and men.
XGM FOMO generator #16. Nielsen heuristics for note templates (?!) Inova.
Design of notes with good rules of thumb. Talk to me goose.
XGM FOMO generator #15. ClinAC039 Navigating Charts Made Easier with Foundation Note Templates
Epic Wisconsin is rocking our world. Primary care foundation note with ALL the best ideas in one place: disappearing smart text for help tips. Linking out to synopsis, results review, and other parts of chart. Hover bubbles! Make med list disappearing. It is so much for effective AND notes get shorter! Wat
XGM FOMO generator #14. UCHealth secure chat experience
Grateful for a team doing great analytics work in adoption of secure chat across 14 hospitals and 1000 clinics. What lessons learned?
XGM FOMO generator #13. Ambient notes early experience. MemorialCare, CA
MemorialCare in California is deploying Abridge and finding up to 90 minute savings in notes.
XGM FOMO generator #11. RTBT @UCHealth & Duke and RTBT ukulele song ‘Empty Wallet’
How are we doing at showing prescribers and patients their anticipated copay cost for prescription meds? RTBT real time benefit tools are one way we break down information walls.
XGM FOMO generator #10 CLINAC01
When it’s standing room only in Epic Shake for Clinical Advisory Council 01 (?1700 seats) you know the pandemic is over. Super cool tools coming for physicians and nurses.
XGM FOMO generator #9 (OPAT)
UCHealth building safety into OPAT outpatient antimicrobial therapy mapping out inefficiency and potentials for error in this important and delicate process for septic joints, osteomyelitis patients.
XGM FOMO generator #7 (Multicare’s Ambient notes: “Care I should be doing”)
Multicare shares that providers who save time from ambient notes put their time right back into looking at other parts of the EHR and taking care of other patient care tasks. Huh. Signal audit pajama time metrics don’t move much, but physician satisfaction soars. “I’m doing the work should be doing.”
XGM FOMO generator #6 (ambient notes have an ROI?!)
Thanks to Legacy’s CMIO Kelley Aurand, friend of the blog, for teaching us how to think about ROI for ambient notes. XGM’s PAC16.
XGM FOMO generator #8. Multi-care Mindset and aspiring to “B-minus”
Seven slides from PAC21 at XGM. Mind blown. The rest of the talk is a must see, but definitely check out the 10 do’s and don’ts of charting. Its not about the tech, people.
XGM FOMO generator #5 (bandolier selfie)
Never thought I would take a bathroom selfie, but here we are. XGM Epic Voyager hall restroom. I feel like a gunslinger with a laptop shoulder strap and a ukulele shoulder strap. Like a double bandolier of bullets. Yeah, I have no idea what I’m talking about.