Epic Bridges Exam 2026/2027 Study Guide With Complete Solution (6pages)

Epic Bridges Exam 2026 Study Guide With Complete Solution To identify a patient using identity you need the _____ and the _____ - ANSWER ID type and ID What are the 3 types of patient validation an interface can use? - ANSWER Basic Validation, Extended Validation, Identity Duplication Configuration (IDC) What kind of alerts can be set up in the Background monitor? - ANSWER Rule Based Alerts _____ is an online tool you can used to document details about issues you encounter. - ANSWER Sherlock What is translation table used for? - ANSWER used to map more granular items from database records What is identity used for? - ANSWER It is used to map large database records What are the three methods you can use to perform migration? - ANSWER Data Courier, Pack/unpack database record utilities, manual migration What is a data courier? - ANSWER A tool that Epic provides to facilitate the migration of objects between environments. What is included in the subset of bridges records that can be migrated with Data Courier? - ANSWER tables (translation & general), error work queues, error steps, radar dashboards, custom columns used in message searches and error log reports Communication Daemon - ANSWER Sends or receives acknowledgements over a TCP/IP connection Data Queue - ANSWER contains Hl7 Messages along with timestamp information about message processing Trigger - ANSWER A single, clearly defined action that a user or process can take that results in an interface message being created and sent Filer daemon - ANSWER Translates HL7 data into something that can be stored to the database The message editor does not perform validation (T/F) - ANSWER True. The message editor is a free text editor and has no idea how the message should look Control Queue - ANSWER maintains a list of messages waiting to be processed. A to-do list with instructions to send or file messages stored in the data queue Messages are manually deleted from the data queue (T/F) - ANSWER They are purged only by an automated purge job You can start only one interface at a time (T/F) - ANSWER false. You can start any or all of the interfaces in a given interface monitor Where is the first place you should go for help with an interface? - ANSWER Reference guide -contains all published information Epic has about a specific interface. What are two actions you can take on the message associated with an error when running an error log report? - ANSWER Resubmit and Retrigger The _____ contains the info needed to build a message. - ANSWER Event Queue What variable is required for every interface in order to process messages? - ANSWER INTF_USER- The interface will not start without this What is special about the NTE Segment? - ANSWER It's meaning depends on the segment it follows. What order does the encoding characters of the MSH segment need to be? - ANSWER Field, Component, Repetition, Escape, Subcomponent