Networking and Info Sharing
The WIEUG Networking and Info Sharing Pillar
These sessions and groups provide consistent and efficient ways for teams (for discussion topics not related to RUG governance / support) to meet and discuss best practices and information about their roles and the applications that they use / support. See below for details of the program, links to session documents and notes and check out the WIEUG calendar and registration form to participate in these important initiatives!
WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
The historic bread and butter of Epic User Groups, networking and information sharing for the purpose of improving the internal Epic system remains an important component of members sessions. There are multiple other nuanced ways we can improve internal build that optimizes the information that is ultimately shared across Epic instances or improves patient care. This also includes sessions in which Epic organizations provide feedback for specific development.
WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR THE PROGRAM?
Each group meets at least once a year (most are scheduled 2-4 times per year) and the goals of the team is defined at the group level.
These sessions do not develop regional deliverables, but are considered an important way to improve peer connections and information sharing across Epic applications and roles.
HOW DO I KNOW WHAT TO JOIN?
All of the sessions in this program are open to anyone, and we encourage you to review the session details to determine which sessions would be beneficial or interesting for you to join.
➢ This is a program that goes outside of Interoperability and so has a wide breadth of roles that may be interested / included.
➢ Don’t be shy – join a session today to hear a spectrum of perspectives across a variety of topics!
WHAT NETWORKING GROUPS ARE CURRENTLY MEETING?
This program will include separate teams INCLUDING:
Clinical Networking Teams
✓ Occupational Health
✓ Clinical Informatics
✓ Sepsis
✓ CMIO / Med Informatics
✓ Optime / Anesthesia
Non-Clinical Networking Teams
✓ Downtime / recovery
✓ Gold Stars Program
✓ Legacy Data Management
✓ EpicCare Link
✓ Community Connect / Affiliate Management
Epic R&D Feedback Teams
✓ CE Matching Algorithm Development
✓ CMS Inpatient Audit Tools
✓ eMR Retention
✓ Lab Profile Mapping
✓ IEX / HT Imaging
✓ EPP Reporting / Metrics
Networking and info sharing programs:
clinical informatics
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to discuss current challenges, best practices, governance structures, training and specific workflows related to clinical informatics.
CADENCE:
Quarterly
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to discuss hot topics, vendors, themes and challenges and solutions.
CADENCE:
Twice a year
CMIO / med informatics
community connect / affiliate management
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to discuss challenges and solutions related to community connect and affiliates.
This group will also share perspectives on when and why it makes sense to enable Community Connect relationships and the impact they have on build, reporting and HIE.
CADENCE:
Every four months
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to explore and discuss how organizations have morphed their downtime and recovery processes to accommodate unplanned / longer-term downtimes.
CADENCE:
Every 4 months
downtime / recovery
emr / patient purging
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to become an early adopter of Epic's newly released patient purging functionality. If that's not in the cards for your org, still join to learn from your peers what their current eMR retention policies are and how they differ from paper retention policies.
CADENCE:
Twice a year
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to explore ways to optimize Link connections from contracting to ongoing management of Link partners.
CADENCE:
Quarterly
epiccare link
gold stars / honor roll / keeping current
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to explore and discuss how organizations improve scores for Epic programs like Gold Stars / Honor Roll / Keeping Current.
CADENCE:
Twice a year
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to explore and discuss HIM related build and workflows including chart corrections / deficiencies / provider escalation workflows / scanning / document management / ROI.
CADENCE:
Every other month - beginning in March
him
reporting / analytics
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to exchange best practices and governance structures / roles and responsibilities related to Epic reporting and analytics.
CADENCE:
Quarterly - beginning in May
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to exchange best practices and workflows related to Sepsis identification and management, including Epic's released care pathway functionality and other tools in use.
CADENCE:
one-off in Feb
sepsis improvement
occupational health
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to explore best practices and workflows related to Occ health module.
CADENCE:
Twice a year
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to enable discussions on best practices and solutions related to OpTime / Anesthesia workflows and build.
CADENCE:
Every six months
optime / anesthesia
optimizing the consumption and usage of system data
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Join this discussion based networking group to discuss ways to improve internal data management, especially across sources and systems. This will also include discussions on cloud based and server-oriented storage solutions and compare options available for the ever expanding amount of data that requires management.
CADENCE:
Every six months
NETWORKING AND INFO SHARING NOTES AND DOCUMENTS
- Occupational Health Networking Group
- Clinical Informatics Networking Group
- Sepsis Improvement Networking Group
- CMIO / Med Informatics Networking Group
- OpTime / Anesthesia Networking Group
- Downtime / Recovery Networking Group
- HIM Networking Group
- Gold Stars / Honor Roll / Keeping Current Networking Group
- Legacy Data Management Networking Group
- EpicCare Link Networking Group
- Community Connect / Affiliate Management Networking Group
- CE Matching Algorithm Development R&D Feedback Team
- CMS Inpatient Audit Tools R&D Feedback Team
- eMR Patient Purging R&D Feedback Team
- Lab Profile Mapping R&D Feedback Team
- IEX / HT Imaging R&D Feedback Team
- Reporting / Analytics Networking Group
