High Alert Designation on EMR Labels for Health-Systems

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Lara Ellinger
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High Alert Designation on EMR Labels for Health-Systems

Hi All,

Can those of you who work at health-systems with multiple inpatient sites on one instance of Epic share your approach to High Alert medications? Specifically,

1) Do you have one shared list or does each site have their own?
2) Do you leverage your EMR-generated labels to designate those meds that are High Alert? How does this work if you have one list?

It seems we cannot tailor the Epic label designations to each site (we have some variation in our lists) and therefore some sites will have this designation on meds they don't classify as high alert and some high alert meds that don't have this designation on the label when they should.

Thanks and have a happy and safe 4th of July.

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