In the complex environment of healthcare IT, efficiently managing the transfer and synchronization of configuration changes across different environments is crucial for maintaining system integrity and ensuring smooth operations.
This article explores how Epic Data Courier simplifies change management within the Epic ecosystem, enhances collaboration between IT teams, and ultimately supports the seamless delivery of patient care through well-maintained and synchronized Epic environments.
Navigating the Epic Data Warehousing Modules
Epic’s Data Warehousing applications provide robust and comprehensive solutions for storing, managing, and analyzing large volumes of healthcare data. These tools are designed to aggregate data from various Epic systems, offering healthcare providers the ability to generate deeper insights, conduct complex analyses, and support strategic planning.
Here’s a closer look at Bridges, Cache, Chronicles, and Data Courier and their key features:
Epic Bridges
Bridges provides an interface bridge that connects Epic and other systems, like HL7, FHIR, DICOM, and more. This enables healthcare organizations to install, configure, and manage the interfaces required to exchange healthcare data, support data transfers, and manage critical messaging activities.
Epic Cache
Cache is a hierarchical database based on InterSystem’s proprietary database, providing the tools needed to maintain reliable KB-SQL database records, facilitate database mirroring, and manage disaster recovery activities as needed.
By consolidating critical data management processes in one environment, Cache empowers organizations to effectively manage data from critical Epic applications and gain real-time insights into key performance indicators.
Epic Chronicles
Chronicles is a complete database management system that leverages a single data model to import, structure, manage, update, and export critical data between Epic and other systems. This enables more efficient reporting, analysis, conversions, computations, and transfers across organizational units.
Epic Data Courier
Data Courier provides intelligent tools that help users manage critical database records and define items within each record as needed.
By emphasizing effective data records management, Data Courier allows organizations to manage patient admissions, scheduling, orders, transfers, discharges, medical histories, and more.
A Closer Look at the Data Courier Application
Epic Data Courier is a specialized tool designed to streamline the process of moving data and configuration changes between various Epic environments—such as development, test, and production.
Data Courier allows healthcare organizations to manage updates, customizations, and system enhancements with precision, reducing the risk of errors and downtime during the transition process. As Data Courier is Epic’s critical tool for migrating master files and clinical data between environments, it provides intelligent connections for the following environments.
- Test: Involves both integrated and pre-production testing activities for all applications, interfaces, typical data mixes, and organizational rules.
- Proof of Concept: Supports initial build and testing processes for only virtual patients (i.e., no identifiable personal health information is accessible.)
- Production: Enables users to access live patient data, complete tasks, facilitate user-level configuration, and set up required interfaces.
- Support: Initiates a daily copy of core production activities that empowers troubleshooting through representative data (Note: Changes in the support environment do not affect the production environment.)
How Can We Help?
From helping you implement new Epic applications into an existing technical environment to guiding effective report creation and analysis, navigating complex integrations between Epic and other systems, and migrating critical patient and physician information across platforms, Surety Systems can help.
Our senior-level Epic consultants have the skills and experience to handle your critical project objectives and prepare your internal teams for continuous improvement and innovation over time.
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