PBM RN Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Looking for other Epic and SCC/SoftLab/SoftBank users to share fixes, concerns, and conundrums with! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab9537 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Would love to join in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBM RN Posted January 28, 2019 Author Share Posted January 28, 2019 Great, I think I have identified at least six of us who are working in the Epic/SCC environments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BldBnker Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Me too! Epic and Softbank! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoyG Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 We are EPIC, EPIC Beaker and Softbank/SoftDonor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie Easley Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 (edited) Me We use Epic/Beaker with SoftBank. Edited January 30, 2019 by Carrie Easley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trudy14 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 We use EPIC / Softbank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bankeratheart Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Not EPIC/Softbank Live for another year Fall 2020 - but would like to join in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBM RN Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share Posted January 31, 2019 This is great! There are more of us than i thought! I am a TSO/Blood Management Coordinator for a 9 facility System. We went live on Epic with SoftBank in October 2016. We are still experiencing many of the same issue with functionality that other are and we have added issues due to Softbank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
applejw Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Please! Epic with Softbank since 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACWHC Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 I'd also like to follow. Epic/Softlab/Softbank since 2011 (BPAM since 2015) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techchief Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 We are EPIC/EPIC Beaker/SoftBank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBM RN Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 Great we have a good group! I have two recent questions if you don't mind more emails. I know this question has been asked in the larger forum, but specific to Epic/Soft how are you all dealing with John Doe's and the conversion of the record once the patient has a known identity if the T&S was drawn on John Doe? Are you redrawing, running parallel charts until DC, or are you converting at a specific time like 72 hours? Second question - how are you handling gender in the Transgender population? We are considering having birth identity go to SoftBank from Epic instead of legal gender? We are still working out how to express the need for the birth gender at registration for patient safety in a sensitive manner. Thank you, Anne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElinF Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 We are going towards Epic and Epic Beaker next year. For blood banking they are looking to go with WellSky. But I would love to join this conversation regarding the Epic standpoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBM RN Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 WellSky is the Mediware product, right? That is the other BB software we looked at too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab9537 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 We are also Epic/SoftBank, SB since 2009, Epic new last year. Would love to hear more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techchief Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 We are EPIC/EPIC Beaker/Softbank starting 11/2017 and would like to join Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kef Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 We are also Soft/Softbank/Epic. Is there another discussion thread for this group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoutygirl2 Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Please add me to this topic too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgoertzen Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 We're a children's hospital in the process of building Epic/Beaker/WellSky (Mediware HCLL) with Go-Live set for April 2020. We've bumped into a huge problem with Epic stating that our outpatient drawing area must use their Epic/Beaker outpatient product which does not allow for electronic (scanned) patient ID and there will also be no patient ID bands. We've been using electronic ID of patients and samples with our current system (MediTech), so losing this functionality would be taking a major step backwards for us - especially with our Pre-Op patients and their blood bank specimens. We don't want to have to go back to requiring 2 specimens collected at different times on all first time blood bank patients, and using no ID bands just sends up giant red flags to me as far as patient safety is concerned. Is anyone else experiencing "no ID bands and no barcode scanning of ID band vs. specimen label" in their outpatient areas? How are you dealing with this? This problem isn't related to SoftBank vs. WellSky so I'm hoping that I can get some advice from all of you Epic/Beaker users. Thank you so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBM RN Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 S, I am not sure I understand this. We have outpatient labs, clinics and care areas where the Epic band is placed when the patient is registered. The band is then scanned either by a handheld device if phlebotomy draws (Rover) or a handheld scanner if Nursing (Symbol is the brand) and the label is created electronically for specimen collection? We converted from Meditech in two of our facilities and we gained functions, not lost. Anne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBM RN Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 On 5/3/2019 at 6:55 AM, Scoutygirl2 said: Please add me to this topic too Added! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBM RN Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 Thank you all for letting me know you are Epic/Beaker and Softbank too. We continue to have certain frustrations with Epic and SoftBank but so far they seem to be similar to everyone else. Please let me know if you have a solution for any of these that we have not found yet. MTP - still on paper but we can input total volume/product Cryo dosing - 5=1 seems to be a challenge to convey Peds Aliquots - we have figured out how to prepare 2 syringes/pedi-bags per order but not more Moving outpts to an inpat setting to complete a transfusion Documenting units between facilities in our own System when pts are transferred An inpatient report per nurse or care unit of transfusions not stopped and completed, a BPA has been advised against Thank you, Anne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Eye Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 On 6/12/2019 at 11:05 PM, sgoertzen said: We're a children's hospital in the process of building Epic/Beaker/WellSky (Mediware HCLL) with Go-Live set for April 2020. We've bumped into a huge problem with Epic stating that our outpatient drawing area must use their Epic/Beaker outpatient product which does not allow for electronic (scanned) patient ID and there will also be no patient ID bands. We've been using electronic ID of patients and samples with our current system (MediTech), so losing this functionality would be taking a major step backwards for us - especially with our Pre-Op patients and their blood bank specimens. We don't want to have to go back to requiring 2 specimens collected at different times on all first time blood bank patients, and using no ID bands just sends up giant red flags to me as far as patient safety is concerned. Is anyone else experiencing "no ID bands and no barcode scanning of ID band vs. specimen label" in their outpatient areas? How are you dealing with this? This problem isn't related to SoftBank vs. WellSky so I'm hoping that I can get some advice from all of you Epic/Beaker users. Thank you so much! We went live with Beacon (another module of EPIC) for our outpatient and we were told same. We insisted that we needed same build as our inpatient where we scan pt ID band and specimen label to document specimen collection. Our infusion clinic workflow (in Beacon) was changed to same as inpatient. I think with EPIC you need to know what is available there and insist that they accommodate your need. We insisted that if inpatient can do it why can't they do same for outpatient! They listened and changed the build for us.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathyang Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Yes. We have been using Epic/ Softbank for 2 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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