[Pedfac] FW: Epic CHANGE – password requirement for closing encounters

[Kumar, Ashok]

Please see below about recent EPIC chart closures – reason for getting rid of closing the chart with two steps (requiring password sign of) and the legal compliance question.
Denise please send this information to private docs.

Thanks.

From: Hoffman, Jeffrey
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 11:01 AM
To: Epic Users
Subject: Epic CHANGE – password requirement for closing encounters

If you hadn’t already noticed, as of yesterday (2/8/18), the requirement to enter your password to close face-to-face encounters in Epic (office visits, nurse only visits, therapy visits, etc.) has been removed.

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A question asked by one of our ENT physicians led to conversations with legal, compliance, and HIM which ultimately determined that this requirement did not provide additional value on top of the audit trail already stored in the Epic database. With the hundreds of thousands of these encounters occurring annually, the Epic team is thrilled to eliminate many millions of keystrokes and clicks from your work each year. Enjoy!


Warm regards,

Jeffrey M Hoffman MD
Chief Medical Information Officer
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
The Ohio State University
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