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What is Epic Cadence?

Epic Cadence is the company's medical scheduling module.

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Simple and Helpful: Users find the system simple to use and helpful in scheduling appointments. Many reviewers have stated that they appreciate the user-friendly interface of the system, which makes it easy for them to navigate and schedule appointments without any confusion or difficulty. Additionally, users have found the system to be helpful in efficiently managing their appointment schedules, allowing them to easily view and organize their patients' appointments.

Prevents Scheduling Conflicts: The system prevents scheduling conflicts by avoiding situations where patients are scheduled at the same time in different facilities. Several users have commended this feature as it ensures that there are no overlapping appointments, reducing potential confusion and inconvenience for both staff and patients. By preventing scheduling conflicts, the system helps maintain a smooth operation and ensures that each patient receives proper attention without any disruptions.

Provides Comprehensive Reports: The system provides many reports that help managers maintain a smooth operation and identify areas for improvement. Numerous reviewers have mentioned how these reports assist them in analyzing various aspects of their operations, such as appointment trends, resource utilization, and patient satisfaction levels. These comprehensive reports allow managers to make data-driven decisions and implement necessary changes to enhance efficiency and overall performance.

Difficult certification process: Some users have found it challenging to obtain certification for the application in the past, causing frustration and delays.

Steep learning curve and limited support: Several reviewers have mentioned that they had to learn things themselves and seek technical support for assistance. This has made the initial setup and ongoing use of the application more difficult than expected.

Frequent upgrades with mixed results: Many users have expressed that upgrades occur every two years and require them to learn new features and functionalities. However, some users feel that these changes are not always beneficial or improve their experience with the application.

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  • Templates are much easier to build now in EPIC 2014. In some of our practices, Prior to Cadence, one of our largest practices (averaging 250-300 pts per day) would build out templates in their old systems and only publish one month in advance since their templates were so hard to change. With Cadence they now publish 1 year in advance because template changes are the fly are so easy to do . Patient satisfaction has grown tremendously as well since now patients are given "real" appointments not told to call back next month when the schedules open up
  • Recalls: Recalls have been a tremendous asset to many of our practices. Our Cardiology practice utilizes recalls and we have built out a custom access data base that is accessed the first day of each month which prints out patient labels based on month of recall to put on postcards that are mailed to patients. Postcards state that your 6,9, 12 month recall is due, Please call the practice to schedule. Patients love it.
  • Access to schedule Appointments thru My Chart" For some practices we have built time slots in Cadence for self scheduling. This is mostly in our Primary Care departments for physicals.
  • DAR ( Department Appointment Report ) - everyone absolutely loves customized DARS. We have been able to add so many "at a glance" things to the DAR. We recently pulled in an abstract icon to the DAR to alert new practices as they come up, that charts have been abstracted prior to the appointments, saving time for the Med. Assistance doing this from scratch with the patients there. This saves the patient so much time as well as the practice. On time performance has improved. Two days prior to a scheduled appts, the DAR is accessed and at a glance, anyone without that icon, will need to have a paper chart pulled, and abstracted prior to the patients arrival.
  • Auto Confirmation: We have contracted with a EPIC recommended service, to auto confirm appointments set on a standard criteria for some large practices saving staff time and monies.
  • Questionnaires: EPIC seems to be very stringent on questionnaires and how may can be attached (only 1) on a Cadence level causing us to be quite inventive on how to get questioned answered on only certain visit types. One big stumbling block was the Ebola questionnaire. Currently we have a particular questionnaire for new Phy. Therapy patients which prevents us from adding the Ebola questionnaire to NEW patients. We are still struggling with this.
  • Patient Itinerates used for multiple appointments: Not very professional looking regardless of how you set up (OP visits, instructions etc: Most practices will not use the itinerary therefore adding dollars to having printing cards with the practice name on them. (the old fashioned way)
  • Building new DEP records: Wish there was a way to copy entire builds from one DEP to another.
  • Security": EPIC security is a nightmare to develop for multi faced users. RN that schedule appointments. Many of our practices are small practices that only have 2-3 people (the doc, the RN and the scheduler/biller . This creates the need for everyone to do everything from a scheduling perspective and building this security can become very cumbersome from practice to practice as each is unique.

I find Cadence to be an extremely useful tool and an asset for any practice (large, small or hospital based department).

I do not believe there are any arenas that it would not be suitable for considering that it can be tailored to the needs of the practice or department. AS stated, we have practices with various sizes (employees and patient loads) . We have customized Cadence to fit each need (limiting visit types, questions, etc) to fit the needs of each

In all the avenues where we have installed Cadence, the feedback is "the gift that keeps on giving".

Our old legacy system was another vendor system interfaced to the current AD system. If was strictly a scheduling system, it did not pass information other than an account number to the ADT system for registration purposes so was very limited in what it could do beyond scheduled. It was a very easy system to work with (IT wise and user wise) due to it simplicity.

Once thing that this system had over Cadence was its ability to develop questionnaires (multiple) based on visit type, patient type, class of visit etc. it could build 1 or many and attach it to the department,

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IT managers, analysts, corporate Operations department

Office managers, Practice administrators, clerical personnel, physicians, medical assistance, technicians and technologists.

Billing staff, financial investigators, third party ADT systems analysts, and vendor

Patients utilize self scheduling as well. Report writers utilize data to build Clarity Reports for practice usage

Statisticians utilize reports from Cadence for projections on staff utilization,

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analysts, managers, team leads. Staff need to be certified obviously - which is a good idea. Cadence is a power house application and is sometimes complication so an analytical and logical mind must be part of the job . The analysts as well as tema lead must be open minded and be a communicator knowing that Cadence builds are the Segway to Epicare flows and navigators as well as Resolute Pro Billing so building and analyzing that build required that open communication.
  • Overall scheduling (obviously)
  • Referrals (huge for authorizations and counting down authorized visits)
  • Statistical reporting of visits, arrived, no show, cancellations etc.
  • Auditing
  • Scheduling provider time outside the practice
  • Scheduling surgeries as a visit type created by an order and flowing that workflow though to billing.
  • Utilizing the referral module for countdown of visits authorized by companies in our physical therapy areas as well as our Behavioral Health Clinics
  • Building a patient intake questionnaire for our PT areas, prior to scheduling on order to ascertain of eligible and begin the intake from a non clinical perspective.
  • More open scheduling thru Cadence and My Chart
  • Expanding the communication between Cadence and Optesia.
Yes

A McKesson vendor scheduling system from an overall IT supported perspective.

However in practices Cadence as replaced, PaceArt, ADS, and Centricity as well as many other various scheduling suystms.

  • Product Features
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
  • Analyst Reports

We have purchased EPIC and all its applications therefore Cadence came along with the package. the initial decision was not to utilize Cadence in our hospitals but rather private practice only.

It soon became apparent that Epicare without Cadence was not a good flavor, so it was decided to implemented Cadence in all areas that were utilizing Epicare. especially since our third partyADT system does not like Epicare messages without Cadence intervention with dates etc.

I was not involved in the initial selection process so cannot comment on this.
  • Implemented in-house
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straight scheduling, then referrals 6 months later (piece by piece), the Resolute professional Billing.

This was done for the first 15-20 practices and then it was implemented together but is every changing.

Change management was a major issue with the implementation

At first, EPIC assisted with the change control process since the analysts had no idea what INI or DEP records would impact something else. Everything went through change control. As our knowledge of the systems increased, we were ale to (wtith EPIC help) reduce the amount of change controls for certain Master files.

these have been identified, reviewed by our entire IT organization, reviewed by EPIC and finalized. We have a great process for change control now. (compliant as we00) but it was a long process.

  • Not having the knowledge to know what should be added or not. We took EPIC word on this and were sorry that we did. We redid many of our decisions as our own knowledge grew
  • Not implementing the referrals module until way after the fact and even then only built it out gradually. It is a constant catch up to publish the new pieces of the referral. We should have done a big bang implementation when we were ready.

Use implementation team from EPIC but know what you want and make sure that it=s what you get. You can be easily swayed by lack of knowledge on the application and therefore decisions are made that are not correct and then have to be redone. EPIC including Cadence needs a great understanding of the workflows you currently have and how they will be impacted by your build.

We had a great understanding of the existing workflows in the offices, however lack of knowledge on the Cadence IT side, had a large impact on what was delivered as our implementers believed that a standard EPIC workflow would suffice and did not.

EPI webinars are most informative and not a long drawn out presentation. It also offer screen shots and practice tools.
Yes
we are hospital based IT therefore we operated 24 x 7 and if a needs arise, we need to be in contact with EPIC and get responses during all hours and all days. This is a no brainer for an Info Tech department as deep rooted into hospital applications as we are.
EPIC has been great in their support and communication at all hours. They also openly communicate when an application TS (Technical Support) will be away and who is covering for that person. During standard non working hours - you always know what number and who to call to get resolution to issues that arise at those times
No
We recently had a practice where we needed to customized our Cadence/Prelude workflows more so than any other time. During the course of adding screens, removing screens, moving fields around etc, we needed guidance from the EPIC TS. After all was said and done, when the analyst data courier the new build into the production environments for that department only, something got crossed and every Cadence/prelude department was affected throwing off normal business functionality. Out TS was right on the spot, assessed the situation and had us back up in running within 2 hours. This was truly amazing.
  • Recalls
  • DAR
  • Practice scheduling
  • Cancels and reschedules
  • Questionnaires.
  • Printing multiple appointment (patient Itineraries).
  • While the end results are wonderful - recurring accounts are cumbersome to set up the criteria.
  • While a wonderful tool - Referrals is a tough one.
Yes, but I don't use it

As stated earlier, it seems to be the best out there, from a built perspective as well as a user application. While some practices feel it to be time consuming (Cadence/Prelude) together others who see the whole integration thru the Epicare and Resolute systems love it.

From an IT perspective, while sometimes cumbersome to build, the end results are pleasing and satisfying. We can usually accomplish what we set out to do with the practice vision in mind.

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