Implementation
- All leaflets are written at a 5th-to-7th-grade reading level and include high-quality illustrations
- 3,200 leaflets on medications available in 19 languages
- 3,600 handouts on conditions, procedures, discharge instructions and healthy living available in up to 19 languages (all in English and Spanish)
- Customize leaflets with patient-specific information
- Epic's Discharge Instructions navigator section and the Clinical References activity provide quick access to Lexicomp patient education within Hyperspace®
- Programs with access include:
- EpicCare® Ambulatory
- EpicCare® Inpatient
- EpicCare® ASAP products
- Patient leaflets can be stored within Epic activities
- Store leaflets in the patient's chart, making them available for review to the original clinician and to other providers on future visits
- Leaflets are accessible to print at patient discharge
- Patient education materials can be made available to the patient in MyChart®
- Several delivery options
- HL7 Infobutton links to online content directly from Epic applications
- Flat files can be downloaded from an FTP site at the customer's convenience and maintained on the customer's hard drive; files refreshed every night with new updates
Benefits
- Consistency – the same leaflets are found in all relevant functions of Epic and on the Lexicomp Online interface
- Supports Meaningful Use requirements
- Helps meet requirement of using Context Aware Knowledge Retrieval HL7 standards (Infobutton) for retrieval of reference information, including patient education
- Patient education leaflets can also provide specific educational information as driven by EMR problem lists or discharge diagnoses
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