Patients who are a part of the Diabetes registry will now be included in three new diabetes-related health maintenance topics:

You may notice a slight change with unknown patients in Epic. To improve patient safety and utilize Epic alerts based on patient age, the date of birth standardization of 121 years of age for unknown patients will no longer be utilized.

At UMMC, we have successfully piloted extended-infusion (EI) with meropenem over the past several months and are now expanding EI to piperacillin/tazobactam on September 11, 2019. Extended-infusion is a way to optimize the pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of beta-lactam antibiotics, including piperacillin/tazobactam, cefepime, and meropenem.

Please be aware of the importance of logging into the correct department for EPIC. Some users have the option to choose the department they are logging into when signing into EPIC.