Epic's laboratory application.

Practice Outside of Class: See Practice Using Epic for practice patients and logins that help target most common workflows within the Epic Playground environments.

Course Length: 1-3 hours (depending on role)

Prerequisites: None

Registration: Online     Search for: Beaker AP

Roles: Lab Manager, Medical Lab Scientist (MLS), Histotech, Gross Assistant, Transcriptionist, Accessioner, Hemetech, Cytotech, Flowtech, and Decedent Care Specialist.

Content: Intro to Hyperspace, assigning and creating Anatomic Pathology (AP) cases, completing tasks and tracking AP cases, and finding AP case information.

Course Length: 4 hours

Prerequisites: None

Registration: Online     Search for: Beaker CP

Roles: Lab Managers, Medical Lab Scientists (MLS), Medical Lab Technicians (MLT), Lab Technicians, Clerk Technicians, Health Science Clinicians (as appropriate) and Student Lab Workers

Content: Intro to Hyperspace, Chart Review basics, Receiving Specimens, Entering and Verifying Results using the Comm Log, adding orders, conducting Specimen-Only Visits, Making Appointments, Receiving Specimens from a Submitter, accessing and navigating the Procedure Catalog and In Basket basics.

Course Length: 3.5 hours

Prerequisites: None

Registration: Online     Search for: Beaker CP

Roles: Phlebotomy Technicians and Student Phlebotomy Workers

Content: Intro to Hyperspace, Chart Review basics, Collecting Specimens from an inpatient, Collecting Specimens from a scheduled patient, scheduling and registering a Walk-In patient, conducting Specimen-Only Visits, accessing and navigating the Procedure Catalog, and In Basket basics.

Course Length: 3 hours

Prerequisites: Nurses, Medical Assistants, and Paramedics must have completed the Epic Clinic Nursing series. Other off-site staff who will conduct lab activities must have completed ONE of the following:

Registration: Online     Search for: Beaker for Off-site

Roles: Off-site clinic/lab staff who will be conducting lab activities in an off-site lab

Content: Intro to Hyperspace, Lab Collection, Specimen Receiving (Clin Path Specimens), the Outstanding List, Entering Results, Verifying Results, using the Comm Log, Correcting Results, Sending Out Specimens, and Case Receiving (Anatomical Path Specimens).

Class Length: 3 hours

Prerequisites: None

Registration: E-mail: epictrainingrequests@healthcare.uiowa.edu

Include in the e-mail: first and last name of employee, their role, the name of the lab in which they will be working, and whether they have previous experience working in Epic

Roles: All VA Lab Employees

Content: (Content is determined based on specific role and lab.)

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