Tippy - Attaching Files to Charts

Tippies can be quickly adopted with immediate workflow benefits...
  • Attaching Files to Charts
The "Media Manager" activity (found via the Hyperspace Epic Menu and via Search) can be used to import files saved to a local or networked hard drive.

Media "objects" may be images, documents or other items important to attach to the medical record. Once attached, they can be linked at a patient, encounter or order level and can be attached to communications or inserted in Notes.

Indeed, Connect Care mobile apps can be used to quickly capture clinical images for insertion into notes or attachment to the chart.... a simple skill well worth learning ("picture worth a thousand words" and all that).  

Useful basics about Media Manager and Image Capture:
Be sure to delete the file(s) from the local computer once successfully attached to the patient's chart.