Challenges:
-Collaborative effort
-Push back: from people who are utilizing and people who want to start an initiative (EPIC
-People who are providing initiatives, where do they come from, and how are projects initiated or found out? Where do you get the data from?
EPIC School star program, gold star projects, EPIC project honor roll, processes within a kit (optimization request: user bing concerns concerned about fixing x,y,z in a system), physician builders (took more additional EPIC classes, program notes, smarter notes making notes templated for physicians to be more efficient.
-Patient safety: data breaches
-PHI
-Encrypted PHI
-Email encrypted
-Duo push
-2 factor authentication
-Epic hosted
-Security audit manager in Epic: every single click, any chart that you open will be flagged and go to your manager: this is to protect the pt, patient’s privacy.
-How to become a nurse informaticist
-3 Most Responsibilities
-Communicating with the N-users: they are reaching out to them, responding to tickets, utilizing Epic more efficiently, and saving them time
-Active participant within projects: concerns about patient safety, workflow, and using their voices when needed
-Supporting n-users’ thought training, making sure they are available to new people so they can be successful in their practice
-Making sure nurses use Epic more efficiently, effectively
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-Enhanced scheduling for each specialty: scheduling follow-up under my chart
-Dax ambient a new software; use a phone, listen to a conversation with the patient, and record. Very helpful, less time-consuming. AI to help generate some responses.
-Nursing informatics in the future: Dax ambient will be beneficial for nurses, AI will help generate some responses . Future will be AI and Dax ambient.
-Dax is part of Microsoft, and it is integrated thorough EPIC
-introduction of a pilot project, Ambient Nursing Documentation
-focused on project management and collaboration.
-complications and considerations when two (or more) hospitals or hospital/healthcare systems merge together and the data information systems need to merge.