4.0 Profiles Flashcards
What is a Profile?
Profile ﴾LPR﴿ master file, which is used to define many of the settings related to the clinical workspace, including the reports clinicians see in the sidebar and Chart Review.
What is a compiled profile?
A compiled profile, also called a composite profile, represents the collection of profile settings that will impact a user.
What is the profile Heirarchy?
User Template (EMP) EpicCare Security Class (ECL) Department (DEP) Location (EAF) Service Area (EAF) System Definitions (LSD)
What do you think is the most efficient level to start profile build, and why?
With up to six profile records impacting a user, how does the system decide which options within activities will appear in Hyperspace? The most general level in the hierarchy to make settings that will apply to the most people. Then you can build for the exceptions to those settings at more specific levels in the hierarchy.
What does it mean that compiled profiles and preference lists compile cumulatively?
Based on the Rule of Specificity, we know that all lists linked to the most specific level will be compiled for the user. As we continue to search down the hierarchy, the system will also compile any preference list of a type that hasn’t already compiled. This is why a user with this specific configuration would still end up with preference lists defined at System Definitions even though there are preference lists linked at more specific levels.
What is the difference about profiles vs. preference lists?
Preference lists compile separately, while profiles are all-or-nothing.
What are the two goals when determining how to change a compiled profile?
Make Changes to a Compiled Profile
You have two goals when determining how to change a profile.
1. Make the right changes for the users who need them.
2. Don’t make changes for users who don’t need them.
By making profile settings at the most general level in the hierarchy possible, you can save yourself time building and maintaining the profiles you create. Building at the most general level possible is therefore the most efficient way to ensure successful leveraging of the profile hierarchy.
What questions will help you identify the best level to deliver changes to profile settings?
The following questions will help you identify the best level to deliver changes to profile settings:
What setting needs to change?
Which users need the change?
What do the users who need the change have in common?
What’s the most general hierarchy level that could deliver this change to the correct users?
What settings are in a profile?
- Reports
- Flowsheets
- Vitals
- Navigators
- Order-related
- Workflow Engine Rules
- Signing a Visit
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What is the Facility Structure?
Department (DEP) - Where a user logs in; where a patient gets care.
Location (EAF) - Revenue, Physical Building
Service Area (EAF) - Billing Entity
Facility (EAF) - Who Organization
What is the difference between a facility record and a Systems Definitions?
A facility record is not the same thing as System Definitions. While both can impact an organization, System Definitions impacts clinical settings, while facility records impact other organizational settings. A profile is linked to System Definitions ﴾LSD﴿, not the facility ﴾EAF﴿ record.
True or False: Any profile record can be linked at any level in the hierarchy.
True
True or False: The profile controls access to activities in Hyperspace
False. The profile controls the options available within activities.
A user logs in and is affected by two profiles: a department level and a System Definitions level. When the two have competing values, which values override which?
The more specific level profile settings will override the more general. The department profile’s values would override the System Definitions profile’s values.
What is the maximum number of profiles that can contribute to a compiled profile?
Six
