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Interfacing and Integration

Epic Infection Control integrates very nicely with all of our other Epic systems. That is why we...

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Functionality and Upgrades

One of my favorite aspects of Epic Infection Control is that we have the ability to directly...

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Functionality and Upgrades

We get great tracking and reporting from the product, especially during COVID-19. We have been...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

I would like for Epic Infection Control to flag new infectious-disease tests because oftentimes we...

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Director

Lessons Learned

Whether we would buy the system again would be very complicated. Long story short, there are better...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

I wish that Epic Infection Control had more alerts. I want the system to tell me when I should start...

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Other Observations & Comments

The vendor definitely keeps their promises, but Epic definitely underpromises. Many competitors in...

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Director

Service and Support

Epic is much more responsible with their charges than the competitors in the market are.

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

The ability to graphically export information from the system would be nice. There are a lot of...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

There are parts of the record that aren't easy to extract data from to move to other parts of the...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

In regard to COVID-19, we started some manual processes for tracking what was going on and for...

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Other Observations & Comments

There is so much that Epic's system can do, but we really need the people on board to be able to...

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Other Observations & Comments

We are using pharmacy surveillance tools. That has been kind of hit or miss because the pharmacists...

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Other Observations & Comments

We had an upgrade not too long ago, and we have had a couple of issues that have come up that were...

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Other Observations & Comments

I think, in general, Epic keeps their promises. There was a lot of struggle with the implementation....

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Functionality and Upgrades

When it comes to getting our money's worth, Epic’s system streamlines our workflows so that it takes...

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Technology

As far as delivering new technology goes, I think that when something comes up, like COVID-19, Epic...

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Manager

Other Observations & Comments

I see no reason why my satisfaction level in a year from now would be any different. I am not aware...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

The infection control module is good. My biggest problem with it is that it is built so heavily on...

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Director

Other Observations & Comments

We try not to use any other outside systems, but we do sometimes. We have put so much into the...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

Predictive intelligence is built into the system. If we have a blood stream infection, the system...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

Epic hasn’t kept their promises regarding the ability to report out of the system. They also...

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Director

Interfacing and Integration

Apparently, it is very difficult to integrate the system with other programs. We have tried to...

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Director

Relationship

The executives from Epic are very good beyond the first person we worked with, who was not very...

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Director

Other Observations & Comments

Epic did step up during the pandemic. They tried to build a dashboard, but it wouldn’t pull things...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

We do routine upgrades with Epic, and those go fairly well. The system gets better every year. Epic...

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Director

Implementation and Training

The training for the system is very poor. Epic didn’t really have anybody because most infection...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

We are having challenges with the support that Epic has been providing during the COVID-19 crisis....

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

Sometimes when there are updates, any fixes that we make in the system to make it flow better don't...

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Manager

Implementation and Training

Whenever we went live with Epic, we were ready. We worked very closely with our assigned liaison,...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

Epic is still somewhat siloed in the different report systems, and we aren’t always licensed to have...

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Manager

Implementation and Training

For facilities that are setting up Epic’s product, it would be helpful to make sure that somebody is...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

The different silos don’t communicate very well. When we try to pull a report from Epic’s system in...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

We have had some challenges when we have tried to create the ventilator-associated module. We...

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Manager

Service and Support

Everybody is receptive to trying to get us help in a relatively quick turnaround time. However,...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

We had to take an extra permission step with the Epic administrators to be able to get a certain...

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Manager

Service and Support

Everybody is working from home now, so we have to submit a ticket every time we need a fix, and that...

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Manager

Relationship

My technical support person and my liaison are really on top of trying to keep us up to date on any...

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Manager

Relationship

One challenge that we have had with having Epic’s system in the infection prevention area is that we...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

Without the solution, we would be doing manual pulls, so I would give the product a very high...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

Epic Infection Control is easy to use. The workflow is wide open when it comes to what we need to...

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Director

Relationship

We have used Epic systems for other types of surveillance reports but just not for the IP section...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

The biggest gap with Epic Infection Control is within the IP system. We don't have the functionality...

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Director

ROI / Cost (care and feeding)

We were using another vendor’s software, but we are an Epic shop. Early on, we got a lot of strong...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

Epic has been tremendous at supporting us during the COVID-19 crisis. We were able to take advantage...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

Epic still struggles with publicly reported health impact assessments. They are getting away from...

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Director

Lessons Learned

For all the positives of using Epic, we are very used to having a smaller vendor. All the other...

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Director

Future Outlook

Epic was up front when it comes to the product working as promoted. With Epic, I would give a fairly...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

Epic Infection Control works well. I really like it. Epic is easy to work with. We have given them...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

It would be nice if we could abstract everything to our infection tracking system in one piece and...

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Manager

Relationship

Epic is very collaborative with us. We meet with the developers a couple of times a year, and they...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

Epic is definitely a huge upgrade over our previous vendor. Epic Infection Control has made us much...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

The solution has increased our ability to detect infections that were previously missed. Before, we...

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Manager

Implementation and Training

We have struggled the most with training. I think that this is because we haven't had a trainer with...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

We have a contact person who does the Epic things for us. If that person left, we would be in deep...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

With our last product, if I wanted to create a report on a specific organism, I could do that on the...

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Manager

Implementation and Training

The landing page theoretically looks nice. The issue is that since we have a different patient...

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Manager

Other Observations & Comments

Our in-house people have been trained in the Epic platform, and they have connections to Epic, but...

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Manager

Other Observations & Comments

Once we get to the point of the uploads, they are pretty easy, so that makes life a bit easier....

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Manager

Implementation and Training

The training was garbage. It didn't address our workflow or our patient population. We are doing a...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

It is easy to figure out who has precautions with the system. We asked to do abstractions for all...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

My organization has made a commitment to Epic, and I will follow what my organization wants. The...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

The system is easy to use. We just hover over things, and the information is available. We like that...

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Manager

Technology

The dashboard is very busy and cluttered. There are items that are barely used and take away from...

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Manager

Technology

There are certain things that require too many clicks, especially when we are looking for an...

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Manager

Implementation and Training

We don’t have a specific person for training. The train-the-trainer process has dwindled down, so...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

If there is anything that makes the product not perfect, it is because we expected things that Epic...

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Manager

Service and Support

In some cases, the product may be developed in a way that isn't published anywhere, including the...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

There doesn't seem to be a solution for contact tracing that is easy to implement in the hospital....

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

It is difficult for end users to make the leap to reporting. Epic Infection Control is ultimately a...

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Manager

Service and Support

We didn't need a lot of help from Epic during COVID-19, but they were there when we needed...

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Director

ROI / Cost (care and feeding)

To my knowledge, the vendor avoids nickel-and-diming. I haven't heard about any additional charges...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

For us, the product is nice. There are some departments that need a different lab system to make the...

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Director

Implementation and Training

The vendor puts out templates and also provides great tip sheets. We have had trouble getting the...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

The vendor has been very responsive during the COVID-19 crisis. They have kept up with our changing...

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Director

Technology

The vendor is good at delivering new technology. They have an innovation team that keeps people...

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Director

Service and Support

We have a dedicated vendor representative that is off-site and a few representatives on campus. The...

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Director

ROI / Cost (care and feeding)

The vendor is very quick about making audits, reports, dashboards, and anything we can use to report...

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Director

Other Observations & Comments

I have no complaints about the price of the system. We get everything we want. I don’t know how much...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

When we went to Epic’s product, we were able to design the product the way we wanted to. We told the...

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Director

Other Observations & Comments

I have a lot of things to ask Epic. They are things that we could focus on to make things a little...

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Director

ROI / Cost (care and feeding)

The vendor has done several things about putting patients in isolation, identifying symptomatic and...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Functionality and Upgrades

We are able to do a lot of things that we need to do, but there are some limitations. A lot of those...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Functionality and Upgrades

Several months after our go-live, we were still working out a lot of little bugs and workflow...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Service and Support

Our internal team reached out to Epic, and we had a lot of issues getting some things sorted out....

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Analyst/Coordinator

Other Observations & Comments

We have a lot of continual issues with important things like exporting and NHSN reporting. Our...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Functionality and Upgrades

I don’t communicate directly with Epic. I communicate with our internal team, which then...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Functionality and Upgrades

The system does our CAUTI and CLABSI surveillance very well. It does our reportables well too.

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Analyst/Coordinator

ROI / Cost (care and feeding)

It doesn’t matter how much we pay for the system when there are things that can be better with our...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Lessons Learned

People looking at the software need to know that we need a fair amount of support from our internal...

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Manager

Relationship

I still have an Epic representative on my regular calls about the infection prevention module, and...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

One issue we have may not be on the Epic side; it may be on our analysts' side because of how they...

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Manager

Implementation and Training

Epic’s training model, which wasn't put together by a subject matter expert, is horrendous. Epic...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

We have done a lot of customization, and Epic has been really good at helping us with that...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

The system has a section for favorites where users can save things they use every day. But trying to...

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Manager

Implementation and Training

Epic does quarterly webinars, and those webinars include information about future updates. Epic asks...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

Last year through CMS, the NHSN owners asked for commentary on some specific definitions, and part...

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Manager

Relationship

I haven’t dealt with the Epic executives, but I have dealt with our representative. Epic has sent...

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Manager

Future Outlook

We are not using the system to its full potential right now, but I am moving us toward that goal. I...

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Director

Relationship

In my experience with Epic, if we go to them with an idea, they can help us build whatever our idea...

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Director

Relationship

I told Epic that they need to hire infection preventionists and have those folks work with the...

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Director

Service and Support

We are not on the current version of the system, and that could be part of the reason why we aren't...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

We purchased the infection control software because of the price. Other vendors in the space are...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

I supplement the product by having FTEs that are built into my budget. Those people make things work...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

In general, the implementation is tough with Epic's infection control product. Epic doesn't support...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

When it comes to the product working as promoted, I would like to see the product do operational...

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Director

Technology

Epic brings new technology to the table, but it isn't useful technology. For example, they built a...

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Director

Future Outlook

I expect my overall satisfaction will be the same a year from now. But the vendor could change that...

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Director

Future Outlook

Epic is putting out benchmarking, which will be new technology and will be good. I see a future in...

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Director

Service and Support

I have been pleased with Epic’s service. There was one representative who would have caused me to...

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Director

Other Observations & Comments

We had another product before, and the Epic product came in and replaced that. Epic’s product is no...

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Director

Relationship

I feel like we are getting our money’s worth. We have data that we are comfortable with, and we have...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

I would tell someone that things with the product have gone pretty well. We have confidence in our...

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Director

Service and Support

We had to modify beds and add beds during this COVID-19 crisis. That required us to have the right...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

A number of people can ask Epic for reports, so we have the same version with some slight...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

I would buy the product again. I have used other vendors, and there are pros and cons to each. One...

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Director

Interfacing and Integration

We haven’t had any recent training from Epic. We have had some demos and upcoming benchmarking, but...

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Director

Technology

There are always inherent issues with any product; no IT system is perfect. The system operates on...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

As long as users know the key to unlock things, the product works well. The different screen...

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