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Is There a Way to Bring Order to Orders?

By now, Epic and I have developed a love-hate relationship. I’m certainly happy to have many of its features (Shout out to you, MAR!), but continue to find many features wholly confusing.

I had to discharge a patient recently and on the discharge checklist, we needed to make sure that certain immunizations had…

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Posted by Epic User RN on May 20, 2013 at 4:29pm — 1 Comment

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15. You can trim scope using a scalpel, with surgeon precision, or an axe, like a huntsman chopping away with reckless abandon. The surgical approach allows for things to come together. Think about that!

14. The road to go-live is paved with broken glass.

13. There is no such thing as 80/20 when it comes to Epic installs (I could write a dissertation on the "fallacy of Epic model build"…

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Posted by Janice Giaconia on May 16, 2013 at 6:40pm — 1 Comment

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