Epic Modules Questions and Answers
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Cadence ✔✔Cadence is the Epic scheduling module for Outpatient and Specialty clinics.
Grand Central ✔✔Grand Central is Epic ADT. ADT stands for Admission, Discharge
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Epic Modules Questions and Answers
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Cadence ✔✔Cadence is the Epic scheduling module for Outpatient and Specialty clinics.
Grand Central ✔✔Grand Central is Epic ADT. ADT stands for Admission, Discharge, Transfer.
MyChart ✔✔MyChart is the Epic patient portal application.
OpTime ✔✔OpTime is Epic's operating room management system combining clinical &
decision support tools with integrated scheduling for the management of hospital operating
rooms & ambulatory surgical centers.
Benefits Engine ✔✔The Epic Benefits Engine holds the benefit information (what services are
covered) for each insurance plan.
Welcome ✔✔Welcome is Epic's kiosk is about the size & shape of a small ATM, & allows
patients to check in for appointments, pay co-pay amounts, sign documents, print receipts &
other materials.
Healthy Planet ✔✔Healthy Planet is Epic's accountable care and population management system
module. It enables partners to gather patient information across multiple data sources, including
EHRs, claims, pharmacies & satisfaction surveys allowing for sophisticated analytics & a more
complete view of the patient & better decision support.
EpicCare Inpatient ✔✔EpicCare Inpatient is Epic's inpatient EHR.
EpicCare Ambulatory ✔✔EpicCare Ambulatory is Epic's outpatient ambulatory EHR.
Wisdom ✔✔Wisdom is Epic's dental module.
Willow ✔✔Willow is Epic's pharmacy system. Officially known as the "Willow Inpatient
Pharmacy System".
Stork ✔✔Stork is Epic's obstetrics module for managing pregnancy episodes on the Outpatient
side, and documenting deliveries in the hospital.
Radiant ✔✔Radiant is Epic's Radiology module. It provides documentation, film tracking, and
viewing of Radiology images.
Phoenix ✔✔Phoenix is Epic's transplant module. It supports the focused clinical workflows and
detailed regulatory requirements of solid organ transplants.
Cupid ✔✔Cupid is Epic's cardiology module. There are special clinical tools focused on
cardiology care. Epic can integrate with external EKG devices to bring the EKG readings into
the medical record.
BedTime ✔✔BedTime is Epic's bed management module.
Beacon ✔✔Beacon is Epic's oncology module. It is the chemotherapy module in Epic. It is built
around treatment plans for patients who are undergoing cancer treatment. Whereas most patient
visits are either Outpatient or Inpatient, these visits are considered Series Visit Types, which
span a longer amount of time.
ASAP ✔✔ASAP is Epic's ER module. It tracks which rooms are occupied, displaying room and
bed status on monitors that are mounted on the walls near the nursing stations.
Anesthesia ✔✔Anesthesia is Epic's anesthesia module.
CareEverywhere ✔✔CareEverywhere is Epic's information exchange application for caregivers
that use Epic. It allows doctors & nurses across multiple organization to electronically exchange
patient medical information so long as they are on Epic.
Connect ✔✔Formerly "Community Connect", Connect is Epic's structured method for sharing
an electronic record system to independent physician practices and hospitals, including elearning content, user training and support specialists.
EpicCare Link ✔✔EpicCare Link is Epic's web-based application for connecting organizations
to their community affiliates. It allows independent physicians to easily refer & follow up with
patient progress through a read only, secure, web-based access.
Home Health ✔✔Home Health is Epic's Home Health module that allows visiting caregivers
(Nurse, Nurse Aides, PT, OT, etc) document care done in a patient's home. Clinicians use a
remotely installed software program that allows them to document in settings where they might
not have any Internet connection. Then after they finish their work, they can reconnect to their
organization's network and perform a sync that uploads their documentation to the main Epic
servers.
Resolute ✔✔Resolute is Epic's Hospital Billing (HB) and Professional Billing (PB) system. It
manages revenue cycle and overall billing.
HIM ✔✔HIM stands for Health Information Management, which provides tools to simplify
medical records management tasks, including chart and film tracking, chart deficiencies, release
of information and coding and abstracting.
Beaker ✔✔Beaker is Epic's laboratory system for hospital lab. Orders placed either in Epic or in
an external system are transmitted to Beaker via an HL7 Interface for processing. When patients
arrive to have their blood drawn, the results are entered into Beaker, which then get transmitted
back to the ordering doctor.
Bridges ✔✔Bridges is Epic's module for installing, configuring and maintaining clinical
interfaces to other systems. See the reference below to learn more about interfaces.
Caboodle ✔✔Caboodle: This area of Epic refers to the data warehouse and analytical tools used
to store and retrieve large amounts of clinical data. The data can be queried to provide all manner
of reporting to support care decisions, manage costs, and identify trends. Other data can be
brought in from non-Epic systems, and then used along with Epic data to provide reporting
results. Until mid-2016, the trade name for these tools was Cogito, from the Latin phrase ergo
sum: "I think, therefore I am". In mid-2016, Epic renamed it to "Cabooble", ie Kit & Caboodle.
Hyperspace ✔✔Epic Hyperspace is not a clinical module in itself, but rather the actual
application client that is presented to users of most areas of Epic. When a nurse, doctor, therapist,
or administrative staff launch Epic, the front-end software that is presented to them is called
Hyperspace. It is typically installed on hosted servers that are accessed by many workstations
throughout an enterprise, rather than being installed on individual users' PCs. Citrix commonly
used to host Hyperspace.
Since it is a core component of the Epic system, upgrades almost always include an update of
Hyperspace. Epic Hyperspace is configured to display different menus, tasks, and options to
users depending on their specific roles. For example, a pharmacist will be presented with many
medication-related options, while a family practice physician will be presented with options to
document clinical visits, place orders, and perform other clinically relevant tasks.
Haiku ✔✔Epic Haiku is an App for Android and Apple that allows doctors to access a limited
version of EpicCare Ambulatory.
Kaleidoscope ✔✔Epic Kaleidoscope is the Ophthalmology (Eye Care) module for Epic. It
allows Ophthalmologists and Optometrists to perform eye exams, document eye related
procedures, and write contact lens and eyeglass prescriptions.
Lucy ✔✔Lucy is not exactly a module, but is a concept of allowing patients to download and
print their medical record in a usable format. This is called a Continuity of Care Document
(CCD), and is considered a form of a personal health record.
MyChart Bedside ✔✔Where MyChart is focused mainly on the outpatient and specialty parts of
the patient record, MyChart bedside is intended for use while a patient is admitted to the hospital.
It provides online tools for tracking your progress toward discharge, and can be configured to
provide patient education material.
Radar ✔✔Radar is the dashboard configuration that is shared across almost all other Epic
modules. Dashboards support reports, graphs, performance measures, helpful links, and much
more pertaining to each area. For example, an OB dashboard will have measures relating to CSection rates and number of births.
Reporting Workbench ✔✔This is Epic's application-side reporting solution which allows IT
analysts to create and manage reports on date from most parts of the system. Users work from
templates to get data on patient lists, orders, appointments, diagnoses, and much more. In
Reporting Workbench, users do not run SQL queries to the database, as the tool is visually
oriented.
Epic Rover ✔✔Epic Rover is the module that uses mobile devices to allow Inpatient nursing
staff to do review and documentation tasks. Some of the functions that Rover helps with are
chart review, medication administration, flowsheet documentation, and recording patient photos.
It is not intended to take the place of Epic Hyperspace, the standard client for accessing clinical
functions.
ClinDoc ✔✔Epic's application for clinical documentation and care plans. Documentation (notes,
records of medication administrations, etc.) entered in a patient's hospital chart.
ICU ✔✔The Epic application that supports physicians and staff in the super acute,
comprehensive care and interventional care areas. Features include a well organized, concise
overview of relevant patient events and data (e.g., vital signs, orders, results and IVs), as well as
the ability to trend clinical parameters such as hemodynamics and drips.
Identity ✔✔Identity is Epic's identification and duplicate record management application.
Orders ✔✔The Epic application for placing and managing electronic orders.
Tapestry ✔✔The integrated managed care application, offering tools to automate key workflows
and tasks associated with managed care administration such as utilization management,
authorizations, workflow, bed day tracking and financial case management.
At the elbow support ✔✔Individual help in using Epic that is provided by Super Users, Epic
team members and staff from Epic (the software vendor for Epic) during go-live and for a period
of time post go-live.
Activity ✔✔The place where users enter and view data in Epic. For example, the Order History
activity is used to view information for an order and the Medications activity is used to manager
a patient's prescription.
BCMA ✔✔Barcode Medication Administration - A system that uses barcodes to electronically
administer medications in an effort ensure patients received the correction medication at the
correct time.
BPA ✔✔Best Practice Alert - A pop-up that notifies clinicians when they need to tend to
important tasks, such as reviewing a patient's allergies, writing orders, and completing charting.
Collaborative Build ✔✔Design/build of Epic that will reflect workflows and collaborative best
practice for Cottage Health System.
CT ✔✔Credentialed Trainer - Person who has knowledge of Epic workflows and is responsible
for training Epic end users, administering end-user proficiency assessments, and providing golive support.
In Basket ✔✔The electronic messaging system used within Epic.
ID ✔✔Instructional Designer - These individuals are Epic-certified trainers who develop lesson
plans and implement Epic end-user training programs. They also build and maintain the Epic
training environment; train credential trainers (CTs), Super Users, and end users prior to go-live;
as well as provide on-going support to Epic end users and new staff after initial go-live.
IVR ✔✔Interactive Voice Response - A voice recognition phone capability that allows users of
Epic to speak into a phone and have their message transcribed. Commonly used by
patients/clients to schedule appointments or place pharmacy orders.
MOA ✔✔Manager Orders Activity - Activity within the EHR to place orders.
MAR ✔✔Medication Administration Record - An electronic entry and documentation of drugs
administered to a patient.
Playground ✔✔A replica of the Epic training environment (with the same patient and user
information used in training) that allows physicians and employees to practice what they learned
in Epic training.
Reengineering ✔✔Additional sessions following the Validation Sessions to review more
complex workflows and/or discuss decisions that didn't get made due to time constraints during
the Validation Sessions.
Smart Set ✔✔A documentation template that groups orders, notes, chief complaints etc. This
reduces date entry time.
SmartText ✔✔A text template for charting that can include text, SmartPhrases, Smart Lists and
SmartLinks.
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