What's That?

If you’ve been asking yourself that question in regard to Epic the past few weeks, then this post is for you! Now that the Epic implementation at GBMC is in full swing, you may be hearing a lot of “Epic speak” and unfamiliar terminology. We hope to clear up some of that confusion for you.

Below are some Epic words, applications and their definitions that you’ll want to understand as we move further with the Epic implementation!

• ASAP -- Emergency Room
• Beacon -- Oncology
• Beaker -- Lab
• Cadence -- Scheduling and TeleTracker
• Canto -- Mobile Phone Access
• Clin Doc -- Inpatient Nurse/Ancillary Staff Workflows
• Cogito/Clarity -- Executive Reports, Data Warehouse and Date Repositories
• Epic Everything -- Meaningful Use
• EpicCare Ambulatory -- Ambulatory Clinical Documentation
• EpicCare Everywhere -- Interoperability with other organizations, both Epic and non-Epic
• EpicCare Inpatient -- This is the umbrella over Clin Doc and Orders
• EpicCare Link -- Non-affiliated Web-Based Provider Access
• Haiku -- Tablet Access
• Healthy Planet -- Population Health
• HIM -- Medical Records, Health Information Management and Abstracting
• Kaleidoscope -- Ophthalmology
• MyChart -- Patient Portal
• Optime -- Surgery
• Orders -- Inpatient Physician Workflow
• Ortho -- Outpatient Ortho
• Prelude/ADT/Grand Central -- Registration and Patient Movement
• Radiant -- Radiology
• Resolute Hospital Billing (HB) -- Hospital and Technical Charging
• Resolute Professional Billing (PB) -- Professional Charges
• Rover -- Barcode Medication Scanning and MobiLab
• Stork -- Labor and Delivery Clinical Documentation
• Willow -- Pharmacy
• Workbench and Radar -- System Reports

Since you’re all a part of the Epic implementation, we hope you find this post helpful for when you start hearing these words used more!

Also, congratulations to Laura Hines for winning our Epic contest and answering the question correctly in Josh Von Reuden's blog post, Technically Epic!


Laura Jo Limmer
Instructional Designer

Who's Who?

As the Epic Adventure continues, we want to make sure you are familiar with the different roles of the Epic project team! For this reason, we bring you a quick "Who's Who." Here are some roles and descriptions you should be familiar with throughout the Epic implementation process!

Get your thinking caps ready because next week, we will test you on your Epic acronyms! Here are just a few sneak peeks! 

Can you guess what the following acronyms might stand for or mean?

• ASAP (Hint – it’s not what you think it means!)
• Beacon  
• Cadence 

Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

Laura Jo Limmer
Instructional Designer

Technically Epic, part II

Old Data Center with Servers

To ensure we have at least one awful pun in almost every blog post: Just as you likely wouldn't take fresh-from-the-bay Maryland crab and serve it with Cheese Whiz, we’re not deploying Epic on any older technology, or with Cheese Whiz for that matter! (Apologies to anyone who does this; we’re sure it’s great.)

Take a look at GBMC’s new Epic server hardware system! Yes, it actually does have the cool, blue, “techie” lights. No, the lights don’t actually do anything other than look cool.

GBMC's New Server System Hardware

This and what was discussed in our previous posts are just a few aspects of what Epic is introducing from a technology perspective. There are many others that we don’t have space to talk about here, such as our discussions and planning in painful detail of workstations, printers, Wi-Fi performance and disaster recovery.

Most importantly, these efforts and technologies are all aligned to ensure an end-user experience that lets every GBMC staff member enjoy this fantastic system that our applications build team is building and will deploy to you. Don't worry, we're intending to sure ensure that you won't even have to think about the technical side of the system when using it (such as whether that print job worked or how slow a document is opening) so you can simply experience this great system as it's intended once it's in your capable (and proverbial) hands.

Joshua von Rueden,

Director, Technical Services

Technically Epic

Epic Technical Overview with Epic staff

Direct from GBMC’s own data center, here’s exciting news! For the first time, Epic is no longer a theoretical product or pretty screenshot. Instead, GBMC now has its very own Epic install deployed to our own servers and storage!

What does this mean for you? Great question! It means that GBMC officially has its own version of Epic and that our dedicated build team is beginning to tailor the 2015 foundation platform to match GBMC’s unique workflow needs.

Although a fully customized Epic release is the system GBMC deserves (and will get in October 2016), it’s not the one it needs right now.




The first non-Epic staff member who can comment to this blog post with the movie that the preceding line is taken from wins a prize!

Also, reflecting the importance of the Epic platform to GBMC’s strategic vision, the technical team is deploying cutting-edge hardware that best ensures that the system’s performance matches its many capabilities.

Another exciting element that we'll be deploying with Epic is a new method of proactively watching how the entire system is performing in real-time. We'll have detailed metrics of what should be occurring and a tool to identify, at any given moment, when storage, servers, clients or other equipment is meeting our target thresholds.

Check out some of these fun numbers from the Epic Tech. Team!

Stay tuned for our next post where you’ll learn more about our Epic hardware!

Joshua von Rueden,
Director, Technical Services