IT has made updates within Cerner to assist in COVID-19 related notifications and ordering. Below are the updates made over the past few days.
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Detection Alert
This alert will fire for any patient that has a “Detected” result documented in Cerner in the past 21 days. This will launch daily for each person entering a chart, no more than 1 time a day per patient.
Once the COVID-19 IP *AMION for APPROVAL* Plan is approved
The specimen will be collected and sent to lab
Currently, all specimens are send out tests, so the “Generic” order in the plan will ALWAYS be cancelled and replaced with the correct send out order by lab staff
The order name within the plan has been updated to clearly reflect the process
**This order name will change once we are able to perform the test in-house**
COVID-19 Results
All COVID-19 results performed by UMC and UMCP Clinics will store to the flowsheet in the same location:
Lab flowsheet à Reference Lab Tests
Clinic results will have the lab results scanned in under Misc. Lab/Rad Test Results
SmartZone Notifications
We have added COVID-19 SmartZone notifications to most positions to inform that tests have been ordered, pending and resulted. There are a few key things to note about SmartZone:
Some alerts can be dismissed. Those alerts are indicated by an X in the upper right-hand corner. When an alert is dismissed it will no longer appear and the alerts window collapse
Clicking the blue circle 
will open the window in full screen. To close the alert, click on 
New COVID-19 Notifications
An order has been placed on a bedded patient and the results are pending
When an COVID-19 test on a bedded patient has been collected and received In-Lab an Information alert will appear. This alert will remain on the chart until the test has been resulted
When a COVID-19 test is complete the result will display
When a patient has a new visit on any encounter, this will notify if a patient has a COVID-19 test performed at the UMCP clinics. It will be replaced with the result alert when it is documented
