Effective reporting is a critical element in healthcare operations, enabling organizations to make informed decisions, track performance, and enhance patient outcomes. Epic Reporting Workbench (RWB) is a powerful tool that simplifies and optimizes the creation, customization, and management of operational and clinical reports, providing real-time insights into essential data.
This article delves into the features and best practices of Epic Reporting Workbench, demonstrating how it empowers healthcare organizations to leverage their data effectively for better outcomes.
What is the Epic Reporting Workbench?
Epic Reporting Workbench, part of the Cogito Analytics module, allows healthcare providers to generate and manage clinical, operational, and research reports with ease. It enhances the Epic electronic health record (EHR) system by providing detailed data analytics, customizable reports, and dynamic visualizations to support informed decision-making and operational efficiency.
Key Benefits of Epic Reporting Workbench:
- Real-Time Insights: Provides timely and actionable data for improved patient care and operational decisions.
- Customizable Reports: Users can filter, sort, and customize reports to meet specific needs and objectives.
- Enhanced Data Visualization: Displays data through charts, graphs, and other visual tools to simplify complex information and improve understanding.
- Collaboration & Sharing: Facilitates easy sharing of reports with relevant stakeholders for quicker issue resolution and more efficient communication.
Users can leverage RWB reports and dashboard components to display all rows of current data, charts, graphs, and other key visualizations to improve reporting analytics and information exchange across business units. Reports within the Reporting Workbench can be filtered, sorted, customized, and shared with relevant stakeholders, enabling quicker issue resolution and effective knowledge transfer.
Navigating Reports within the Reporting Workbench
Reports within the Reporting Workbench often leverage Epic Chronicles as their primary data source, enabling users to build reports based on critical inclusion criteria run against both Clarity and Caboodle data sources. Users can leverage predefined templates or build reports from scratch, ensuring relevant operational and clinical data is readily available as needed.
With real-time insights, preconfigured reporting content, and robust data visualization tools, the Reporting Workbench simplifies decision-making and enhances organizational efficiency. The Reporting Workbench enables the generation and management of reports that:
- Visualize real-time information and report results
- Display and exchange patient-level clinical data across patient populations
- Pull current, relevant data from the active health record
- Facilitate connected and actionable results from comprehensive RWB reports
Critical Use Cases for Epic Customers
Access the RWB
Open the Reporting Workbench as an activity within the Hyperspace application by searching ‘My Reports’ in the Epic menu or by using ‘Reports’ as a search term within the Chart Search function.
Run reports
Run reports from the Reporting Workbench, My Dashboards, or the Analytics Catalog. Personalize reporting and analytics functionality by configuring notifications for report results and modifications, store personalized reports, mark favorites, share and save results, and export critical report data to relevant stakeholders.
Find reports
Retrieve reports through the ‘Analytics Catalog’ when a dashboard title is selected in the ‘My Dashboards’ activity. Browse and search RWB reports and templates within the RWB activity using the Chart Search tool and the keyword ‘Analytics.’
Use reports
Manage and interact with report results to access filters, sorting tools, anchor columns, and other customizations to better suit the overall clinical purpose. Enable users to save reports in various formats.
Modify reports
Access a series of ‘Inquiry Clinics’ to adapt RWB report templates and address the critical data needs of specific clinical questions. Modify existing reports and visualize RWB report settings to address inquiry needs using the suggested use case.
Organize reports
Establish a personal collection of reports and mark specific reports as ‘Favorite’ to include in predefined collections. Leverage folders and other organizational units to group different types of reports together.
Share reports
Enable any user to search and access a shared library of all RWB reports available under the RWB Library tab. Share user and administrator created reports with relevant stakeholders as needed.
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