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It's Possible & Here's How (Efficiency Tips)
Epic's "It's Possible" & "Here's How" videos provide short coaching sessions on how to use Epic more efficiently.
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General Resources | Ambulatory Documentation | In Basket | Personalization | Inpatient Documentation
General Resources
General Resources
Here's How...Getting a Personalized Upgrade Summary with What's New (POSS213) - (Video: 2 min) Learn about What's New, your in-Epic guide to the upgrade. What's New gives you a personalized summary of what's changing for you, based on how you use Epic. This feature will be coming to UI Health Care in May 2026.
- Here's Why...A New Home for Search (POSS199) - (Video: 2 min) Learn about the central location for searching and navigating within Epic.
- Storyboard (POSS129) - (Video: 3 min) - Video overview of the Storyboard.
- Here's How... Communication Management (POSS186) - (Video: 2 min) Learn tips to efficiently use the Communications section to draft, route, and send letters.
- Here's How...Synopsis (POSS184) - (Video: 3 min) Use Synopsis to view trends and spot correlations in a patient's chart. Visualize critical information with the graph function.
- Lifetime (POSS132) - (Video: 2 min) - Learn about Lifetime, where you can quickly get up to speed on a patient's basic medical history, including past events, problems, surgical and medical history, and medication therapies using a timeline view.
- Here's How...Care Everywhere Connection Tips (POSS152) - (Video: 2.5 min) - Learn how to make connection so the patient's local chart includes information from other organizations.
- Here's How...See Outside Data with Care Everywhere (POSS169) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to identify and review outside data that's available right within the chart.
- Here's How...Reconcile Outside Info (POSS118) - (Video: 1.5 min) Learn how to review outside information and reconcile it with data that's already in the patient's local chart.
- Results Review (POSS168) - (Video: 1.5 min) - Learn about the latest version of Results Review so you can filter and sort to find what you need quickly.
Ambulatory Documentation
Ambulatory Documentation
- Pre-Charting(POSS002) - (Video: 1 min)
- NoteWriter Macros(POSS020) - (Video: 1 min)
- Meds & Orders Efficiency(POSS010) - (Video: 1 min)
- Procedure Pass (POSS120) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to document and view important information related to a patients upcoming surgery.
- Get Up to Speed from the Schedule (POSS082) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to use the schedule, including how to change your display and personalize your toolbar.
- Visit Diagnoses (POSS057) - (Video: 1.5 min) Learn how to quickly record visit diagnoses and customize the Visit Diagnosis section for speed.
- Visit Taskbar (POSS073) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to use the new Visit Taskbar more efficiently. Note: Outpatient visits scheduled in Hospital Outpatient Departments (HODs) will not see the new Visit Taskbar.
- Result Notes(POSS009) - (Video: 1 min)
- Routing Prescriptions to Multiple Pharmacies (POSS028) - (Video: 1 min) Learn how to route different prescriptions to different pharmacies for the same patient.
- Physician Quick Wins(POSS046) - (Video: 1 min)
- LDA Avatar (POSS104) - (Video: 1 min) Learn how to review, assess, add, and remove LDAs and wounds using a visual representation of the body.
- Team-Based Care in the Clinic (POSS151) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how the care team can work together during an outpatient visit.
In Basket
In Basket
- Here's How... Replies and Notes from In Basket (POSS182) - (Video: 1.5 min) Reply to messages and finish incomplete notes without opening the patient's chart.
- QuickActions: Basics (POSS005) - (Video: 1 min) Learn how to complete multiple actions with one click using QuickActions in In Basket.
- In Basket: My Lists (POSS006) - (Video: 1.5 min) Learn how to route messages to other members of a team quickly using My Lists in In Basket.
- In Basket Personalization (POSS007) - (Video: 1.5 min) Learn how to make In Basket work for you with personalization tips including message ordering, columns sorting, and more.
- In Basket: QuickNotes (POSS011) - (Video: 1.5 min) Learn how to document a note on a patient without going through the extra steps of opening a chart using In Basket QuickNotes.
- QuickActions: Result Notes (POSS012) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to use Result Notes QuickActions in In Basket and how to use the QuickAction Manager.
- QuickActions: Sending Staff Messages (POSS045) - (Video: 1.5 min) Learn how to easily create reminders for yourself or your staff using QuickActions.
Personalization
Personalization
- Bookmarks in Chart Review (POSS116) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to save key items in a patient's chart to the Bookmarks tab in Chart Review. See what other users have bookmarked, too.
- Here's How...Borrowing SmartPhrases (POSS021) - (Video: 1 min) Learn how to create great SmartPhrases by borrowing already created SmartPhrases from your colleagues.
- Chart Review Personalization (POSS055) - (Video: 1 min)
- Here's How...Chart Review Filters (POSS018) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to reduce the noise in Chart Review to quickly find the most important information using filters.
- Customizing Patient Lists and the Schedule (POSS027) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to see the most important and useful information on you patient list or schedule.
- Order Set Personalization (POSS025) - (Video: 1.5 min) Save Order Sets with personal details, create multiple versions of the same Order Set, and use a colleague's Order Sets as your starting point.
- Personalize the Report Toolbar (POSS064) - (Video: 1 min) Learn how to see the most important and useful information on you patient list or schedule.
- Personalizing Notes (POSS019) - (Video: 1 min)
- Personal Preference Lists (POSS023) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to add and use personal preference lists to speed up ordering.
- Preference List Organization (POSS024) - (Video: 1 min) Learn more advanced Preference Lists strategies to streamline your ordering workflows.
- Preference List Sharing (POSS053) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to borrow a colleague's preference list to use as a starting point for your own list.
- Specialty Comments (POSS087) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to record comments that all clinical staff in your department or specialty can see, and even update.
- User Dictionary (POSS022) - (Video: 1 min) Learn how to use shortcuts to enter common and often misspelled words using the User Dictionary.
Inpatient Documentation
Inpatient Documentation
- Brain (POSS112) - (Video: 1 min) Learn about the Brain - a view that helps nurses better plan and work through their shift by putting key patient information and tasks in one place.
- Flowsheet Efficiency (POSS102) - (Video: 1 min) Learn how to speed up your flowsheet documentation with a few efficiency tips.
- Here's How...Flowsheet Macros (POSS189) - (Video: 1.5 min) Learn how to document common assessments in a few clicks with flowsheet macros. See how to quickly create a macro and even share it with colleagues.
- Here's How... Place Orders in Rover (POSS158) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to place orders on the go or at the bedside using Rover.
- Med Rec Efficiency (POSS114) - (Video: 1 min) Learn how to see reconciled medications in the sidebar, and how to see inpatient meds and home meds side-by-side during discharge med rec.
- Pedigrees (POSS086) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to review family medical history in Pedigree, where you can see what’s running in the family or drill down to a specific condition.
- Visit Taskbar (POSS073) - (Video: 2 min) Learn how to use the new Visit Taskbar more efficiently. Note: Outpatient visits scheduled in Hospital Outpatient Departments (HODs) will not see the new Visit Taskbar.
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