What is a Profile? - answerProfile LPR records configure options within

What is a Profile? - answer>>Profile (LPR) records configure options within activities a user can access.What is Chronicles (entire file cabinet)? - answer>>Epic's database management system What is an Item? - answer>>Question prompt on a standardized form What is a Property? - answer>>Relevant information, such as encounter type, which is defined by a property record in the Properties (LRC) master file.What is a Compiled profile? - answer>>A compiled profile, also called a composite profile, represents the collection of profile settings that will impact a user

What is a Master file (drawers)? - answer>>Information in Chronicles is organized into master files. Each master file stores all the data about one type of thing. For example, one master file has information about patients.Some are updated constantly (called dynamic), while some are only updated by administrators (called administrative or static).

What is the abbreviated name called for each master file? - answer>>Each master file has an abbreviated name called the INI. A master's file INI is a three-character initial. For example, Patients is EPT.

What is a Record (file folders)? - answer>>Records store information about one specific entity in the master file. For example, each patient has one record in the EPT master file.

How are records identified? - answer>>Each record has a name and identification number (ID).While two names within the same master file might be the same, IDs must be unique.

What are Contact (Sheets of paper)? - answer>>A date-specific snapshot of the data within are cord. For example, a patient's one hospital stay is documented in a contact.Can contain many different types, such as hospital encounters, appointments, and telephone encounters.In administrative master files, such as Medications, contacts do not represent hospital encounters or appointments. Instead, they represent a date specific change in the information.

What is the purpose of contacts, and what happens to old values when a contact is updated? - answer>>Purpose is to make a change to the record that will become effective on a specific date.This meaning prior to effective date, old values will be used, and on date of contact and forward, new values will become effective.

What is a Value? - answer>>The answer to that item (question prompt) on a standardized form

What is a Report? - answer>>Collection of information for users to review composed of print groups

What is a Print group? - answer>>Information presented to the user from Chronicles by looking at specific items and values.

Explain the benefits of looking for print groups in the Data Handbook on the UserWeb - answer>>You can filter them based on application, report style, etc. in order to find a print group already made that best fits your user's need rather than creating one If a user has the appropriate security point(s) to access an activity, the system looks to the profiles to determine how that activity looks and what options are available within that activity

What is a Profile hierarchy? - answer>>Six different levels Epic looks at each of these levels to create a compiled profile, going from

specific to general:

-User Template (EMP) Individuals with exceptional needs -EpicCare Security Class (ECL) A job's exceptional needs

-Department (DEP) A department's (login dept) needs -Location (EAF) Clinic or hospital's needs -Service Area (EAF) Billing region's needs -System Definitions (LSD) Global (organization) all CLINICAL users -Not to be confused with Facility Records (EAF), which impacts other organizational settings.

How a profile affects Chart Review, reports, and preference lists? - answer>>Since a profile determines how activities look and what options are available within that activity, the settings of a profile affect all these activities.

How profiles interact with each other to create a compiled profile? - answer>>Epic compiles settings across profiles on an item-by-item basis, not screen-by-screen.If you set a particular item on a screen in a user template-level profile but leave the rest of the screen blank, the system takes the one setting from the user template-level profile and looks to the other levels for the remaining settings

What are the basic principles of compiled profile configuration? - answer>>Compiled profile looks at the six different levels from specific to