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Said: Just for some background we use EPIC and Telcor as our Middleware and most of our devices use an unsolicited interface. Our LIS team has recently got the prebuilt glucose meter comments from the Nova meter to cross over to EPIC along wi...

Said: In EPIC there are several ways to comply with documenting that the provider was notified of the critical lab value. It's different for Inpatient versus Ambulatory. For Ambulatory, you access it from the Flowsheet activity tab, then sear...

Said: We automatically transfer urines into gray top tubes for every urine specimen collected for which a culture might be required. Once the POCT UA is completed, the urine is contaminated and can no longer be sent for a urine culture. This ...

Said: This doesn’t directly answer your question, but I’m curious how you’re able to capture critical comments on the i‑STAT. At my organization, we were told that wasn’t feasible because the device only allows numeric comment entries.

Said: My RN/RT staff use the Nurse Flowsheets under the Provider Notification/Critical Test Results. The LVN/MA staff do not have access to this feature in Epic. This is not ideal, but the following is what we have come up with. ...