BACKGROUND: In January, 2018, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices published updated recommendations for Zoster Vaccine including recommendations to administer Recombinant Zoster Vaccine (Shingrix) to patients. Within a few weeks, CDSi specifications were published which detail the intervals and products which are considered legitimate pathways to immunity. In order to provide early-adoption decision support for the new vaccine, I built custom functionality in Epic. I detailed and shared my work with other Epic customers on Epic's customer website. At least two other health systems are implementing my solution in their systems.
I'd like to give a shout out to David Bar-Shain for the work he did on this. I built it all out but made a few mistakes. He very graciously helped me figure them out, and now it's working beautifully. Great work, David and thank you for sharing and helping.
-- A Physician Assistant from Minneapolis
You are kind of a big deal around here, sir. Thank you!
-- A Clinical Informatics Manager from Topeka, KS
A huge thank you to Dr. Bar-Shain for his comprehensive and easy-to-follow steps, complete with screen shots of every single thing that needs to be built. This is a huge thing and I am so grateful and excited that we can move this into Production next week.
It tests beautifully in our copy full HPI environment. I would encourage anyone who is being bombarded with questions about "when Shingrix will update HM" to try it. It took me a day to build and test, and I am no expert with CER build.
-- An Analyst from South Dakota
Thank you Dr. Bar-Shain! It was said best by . . . because you are also a very big deal in Memphis. Thank you for taking the time to share, our patients are better for it!
-- An Analyst from Memphis, TN
-- An Analyst from Memphis, TN
Thanks for sharing your work Dr. Bar-Shain!
Our organization implemented your Shingrix HM build successfully!
-- An Analyst from Pittsburgh, PA