Viewing Epic Clinical Reports

Introduction

As reports are distributed from Epic, Epic sends an HL7 message with the encoded PDF. When Synapse receives the new HL7 file from Epic, Synapse decodes the PDF, saves it as a PDF, and displays the Report icon in the Worklist and in PowerJacket to indicate a report is available. While you are logged into Synapse, Epic remains open for the next study.

If a report does not exist for an Epic study, the No report available message displays.

Prerequisites

To use the Epic integrated workflow, you must comply with the following prerequisites:

  • Have Synapse Desktop Agent installed on your workstation.
  • Have a licensed version of Epic software installed and configured on your workstation.

About this Task

For Epic studies, you can download the report.

Steps

  1. From the Worklist page, select a study that has a report.
  2. To open the study, double-click or select Open Viewer or Open PowerJacket from the context menu.
  3. Complete any of the following applicable steps.

    4. If you want to ...

    Complete these Steps

    Download a report PDF from PowerJacket.
    • Click Download Epic Report on the report toolbar.
    • In the Open or Save File dialog box, select one of the following options:
      • Open
      • Save
        • Save
        • Save as
        • Save and open
      • Cancel

    Open a report PDF in PowerJacket.

    Click Reports in the Information pane of PowerJacket. If you selected Reports as your default view in PowerJacket Settings, the Reports tab is already open.

    See Viewing Reports in PowerJacket.

    Open a report PDF in the Viewer.

    Click Open report on the Viewer toolbar. See Viewing Reports in the Viewer.

Additional Information

For detailed information about how to use the application, see Epic documentation on the Epic website.