We have repeatedly asked our EPIC team to build an Occupational Health module, but our EPIC team said it is not on the future plans at this time.
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We are in the process of building interfaces to move our vaccinations and titers from Agility (Our database for EHS/OH) to EPIC as most of our employees are seen at our 17 primary care clinics and
this is important info the the physicians.
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We also do a “mini-reg” for all new employees so that they will have an EPIC MRN number so we can transfer this information using identifiers other than socials. We will be interfacing with EPIC to
transfer all employees EPIC MRN into Agility in the next month or two.
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Our EHS has an acute care clinic for employees so we are in the process of building an Employee Health department in EPIC so they can chart their acute care visits. The only downside is that we pull
reports on communicable illness, so the ARNPs will have to at least log a visit in Agility with the dx so we can pull reports by cost center.
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EPIC team is looking at setting up cost centers in EPIC for us so we can pull reports in the future on our acute illness visits.
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We already use EPIC for our disease mgt program using an EPIC Employee Wellness department. Our DM nurse charts her visits, progress, labs, etc in EPIC so the PCP can view and see how they are doing.
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We have an interface with our WC TPA so they can input financials on individual claims into Agility so we can pull reports. Not sure how this will work with EPIC.
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EPIC team did not want to do a build for the auto generated OSHA log or Sharps Injury Log or all our codes we use to track injuries. We drill down our injuries in detail (i.e. injured back moving
patient from bed to commode on 9A). We have location codes, patient handling codes, work activity codes, etc.
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We are not that worried about confidentiality as our compliance team does frequent audits and identifies unauthorized utilization quickly. They have many “flags” such as employees accessing charts
on a different unit, family member, etc. I’m sure we can set up parameters for employee chart access. Employee are disciplined and some terminated for accessing an EPIC chart they are not authorized to view.
Great topic…I’m very interested in how others are utilizing EPIC for their EHS/Occupational Health. Maybe if there are enough of us to pressure EPIC, they will start a build for us.
JoAnn Shea, ARNP, MS, COHN-S
Director, Employee Health & Wellness
Work: 813-844-7692 Cell: 813-789-3441 FAX; 813-844-8144 Email: jshea@tgh.org
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We are in the build phase but have not implemented yet. So far we have learned some useful functionality:
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You can designate “sensitive encounters” when the appointment is made, which places everything associated with that visit (appointment information, notes, vitals, labs, orders) visible to only your
access group.
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You can designate “sensitive notes” which would keep a specific note hidden but not the entire encounter.
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Some chart elements are tied to the patient rather than the encounter and cannot be hidden from certain users. This includes medications, problem list, demographics.
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Employees can be designated with a patient type that will trigger a pop-up box before anyone – inside emp/occ health or outside it – can access that record. The viewer must give their reason for accessing
(“break the glass” feature.) This can be configured by dept/area to some degree and can be easily audited.
Melanie Swift, MD
Director, Vanderbilt Occupational Health Clinic
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When we investigated last year there was no employee health or occ health module, no means to track OSHA logs or lost work time or do sharps logs. No way to segregate the records so that the hospital employees
could not see the workers comp records.
Perhaps there is progress now
Mary C Giovannetti, MSN, APRN, BC-FNP
Manager/Nurse Practitioner | Employee Health
853 North Church St, Suite 400 | Spartanburg, SC 29303
o: 864-560-6514 | f: 864-560-6509
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On Behalf Of Thrasher, Terri
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I am told they do have something to build but we are not allowed to use it because its connected to patients.
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They do not when I spoke to them 3 months ago they said they were working on it and they ‘could build it’. But that is what they said a year ago too and no word on cost.
Deb
Deborah A. Sampson, PhD, APRN, COHN-S, FAANP
Director
Employee Health and Wellness Services
Southern New Hampshire Health P.O.Box 2014 8 Prospect Street Nashua, NH 03060
p(603) 281-8583 f (603) 577-5665
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On Behalf Of Lovelace, Connie A.
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 1:32 PM
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Subject: [External] [MCOH-EH] EPIC
Hi,
Does anyone know if EPIC has an occupational health component?
Connie Lovelace, RN, COHN
Clinical Operations Manager/Worker's Compensation Manager
Bon Secours Virginia Health System
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