Q&A
Discussion on EPIC system usage and data entry task distribution at H+H facilities
1:50:17
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Council Member Mercedes Narcisse inquires about the usage of the EPIC electronic health record system across H+H facilities and the potential for distributing data entry tasks among different staff members. Dr. Mitch Katz explains the current state and future plans for EPIC implementation.
- EPIC is used throughout all H+H hospitals
- There are plans to have nurses and other staff assist with data entry tasks
- The ideal scenario involves patients inputting their own information with technological assistance
- Implementation challenges exist, with varying levels of progress across different facilities
Mercedes Narcisse
1:50:17
Now you heard it.
1:50:18
She's going to advocate and whenever she started, I'll be right there because, whatever we can get money for the doctors, why not?
1:50:27
For the EPIC, EPIC right?
1:50:29
You use EPIC to all the system throughout the hospitals?
Mitch Katz
1:50:33
Everything is happening.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:50:34
Every hospitals, right?
1:50:35
So, is a doctor that have to enter all the process or because when we were talking about staffing before, yes, we can get some help.
1:50:45
It can some, like, kind of doctors or trained PAC, whatever that you have in the front to start doing the primary questionnaire?
1:50:54
So the doctors didn't have to do
Mitch Katz
1:50:56
all of it.
1:50:56
Yes.
1:50:57
So, historically, yes, the doctors have done all of it.
1:51:00
Mhmm.
1:51:01
In my own place at Gouvenir, the nurses have started to do, for the primary care patients, put in the medicines, the allergies, and do some of the questionnaires.
1:51:14
Again, I think the the ideal is actually for the patients with help on the tech because that's the primary source.
1:51:23
And I think people should know and take responsibility to know what medicines they're on.
1:51:27
But but, yes, that's that's the vision.
1:51:30
And and as I'm sure you'll hear, and I I accept, it's not perfect.
1:51:34
Nothing that we roll out across health and hospitals ever perfectly happens.
1:51:38
So it might be great over here, but over here, the person who was supposed to come to work didn't come, and the doctor is still doing it.
1:51:48
And the doctor feels like, hey, Mitch, you know, wanted us to do 8 and promised us these things, and that that that extra person still isn't here yet.
1:51:57
I mean, you understand.