March 20, 2023: Epic Honor Roll

Published on Monday, March 20, 2023

Nurses, you are doing an amazing job and we see it in our Honor Roll metrics. Epic Honor Roll is a recognition program based on strategies, lessons learned, and best practices distilled from Epic's experience serving well-respected healthcare organizations. Honor Roll allows UMMC to achieve continuous improvements in patient outcomes, quality of care, workflow efficiency, and financial performance. By following Honor Roll best practices, we can engage patients in the care process, make Epic easier for clinicians to use, and keep pace with the rapid advance of health technology and medical knowledge. Additionally, accomplishing Honor Roll equals cost savings to UMMC. 

We appreciate the hard work that you do. There is one metric that we need to improve on by 0.1% and we know that you can do it! The metric is the percentage of flowsheet values documented within an hour of the observed time. For example, if a nurse assesses a patient at 0700, the documentation would be in Epic by 0800. Timely documentation isn't always possible, and we understand that. Can you all help us increase this percentage by documenting within 60 minutes when possible?