CLN251/252 CONFIGURING THE EPIC
END USER KEY TERMS AND
DEFINITIONS
Hyperspace - answer Epic's front‐end user interface
Chronicles - answer Epic's database management system, often referred to as "the database."
Classic - answer the original Hyperspace client
Text - answer a text‐based, back‐end interface with Chronicles data, used solely by
administrators for creating, editing, and analyzing records.
Master file - answer stores all the data about one type of thing
INI - answer Each master file has an abbreviated name called the ___. A master file's ___ is a
three‐character initial
Record - answer stores information about one specific entity in the master file
Contact - answer a date‐specific snapshot of the data within a record and allows for changes to
the record to be effective on a specific date
Encounter - answer A clinical contact with a patient
Item - answer is like a question prompt on a standardized form
Value - answer is like the answer on a standardized form
, Dynamic records - answer records that are created based on user documentation
Static records - answer records that are built by builders
Networked Items - answer a method of linking one or more records together
Single response item - answer an item allowing for only one response
Multiple response item - answer an item allowing for multiple responses
Multiple related - answer these items relate or depend on each other in some way
Profile - answer ______ records configure options within activities
Compiled profile - answer a section of a profile that comprises the five other sections of a
profile
Profile hierarchy - answer User Template, EpicCare Security Class, Department, Revenue
Location, Service Area, EMR System Definitions
Rule of Specificity - answer the method of making general settings in the broadest levels of a
hierarchy and overriding individual settings in more specific levels of the hierarchy
Facility Structure - answer a linked hierarchy of Chronicles records that represent different
aspects of your enterprise: units/departments, hospitals, clinics, and business entities
Record Types - answer determine how and where a record can be used
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