Sat. June 4, 2022 - WAVE 3 IS LIVE ON EPIC!!

Welcome to the FIRST edition of the Epic live site newsletter for Clinical Care teams, Ambulatory and Inpatient staff.

This is your go-to source for the most up-to-date Epic information, workflow updates, and tips sheets to be shared at staff meetings and huddles. You'll receive regular Epic communication throughout Wave 3 implementation ...and beyond!

Key Updates

In this section, you'll find key Epic information and a link to the Executive Committee's "Top 10 at Noon" listing of Go-Live issues and status reports.

NOTE: Live sites may experience some unexpected hiccups

during the Wave 3 Go-Live period as we stabilize the Epic system.

Thank you in advance for your patience.

The first "Epic Top 10 at Noon" will be tomorrow, Sunday, June 5.

High Impact Workflow Changes 

The Epic Together team has identified seventeen "High Impact Workflows" as having significant changes from heritage systems as we Go-Live on Epic. Starting tomorrow, we will cover one to two of these High Impact Workflows each day in full. 

Click the links below to review key talking points about these High Impact Workflows and the changes to these workflows in Epic. 

1. Blood Administration
2. Breast Imaging
3. Cath Lab and Structured Reporting
4. Discharge Process
5. ECG Muse
6. Heparin and Insulin
7. Interventional Radiology, Rad Tech, & Nursing Documentation for Interventional Procedures
8. Life of a Supply
9. Medication Administration
10. Move Board
11. Nuclear Stress and Charging
12. Patient Safety Watch Orders
13. Pediatric Blood Aliquot Ordering
14. Restraints
15. Sign and Held
16. Unit Collect vs. Lab Collect Default Location
17. Unit Collect vs. Lab Collect

Reminders, Tips & Tricks

Quickly access the last patient record you worked with in Epic 

If you would like to quickly look up the last patient record you accessed in Epic, simply type = (equal sign) and press Enter on your keyboard in the Name/MRN field in Patient Lookup. This is an excellent time-saver when working in Epic to quickly return to the previous patient's chart! 

Remote Access to Epic through Citrix 

You may have accessed SCM or other heritage systems using remote access. You can easily gain remote access to Epic following the same steps. Review the Remote Access tip sheet for step-by-step instruction on gaining remote access to Epic through Citrix. 

Recent Tip Sheets

This section will provide a list of the newest training tip sheets and videos. Check this every day to keep informed and guide you through your daily workflow.

As of Saturday, June 4th, there are no new tip sheets to report. 

For a complete list of Tip Sheets, log in to your Learning Home Dashboard.

How to "Get Help" With Epic

We've developed this handy one-page "Go-Live Help at a Glance" guide that will give you all the information you need to access help with Epic: 

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• Clean (e.g., no curse words or overtly sexual content)
• Considerate (e.g., no marginalizing nor disparaging content)
• Corny
• Silly
• Hilarious

For more information

Wave 3 Implementation

click on our website at 

www.EpicTogetherNJ.org