Principle or Purpose of Procedure
REDCap Users can now connect their IRB approved research studies via FHIR to allow clinical data to pass from EPIC to REDCap seamlessly.
Applicability or Scope
Materials
REDCap users must have access to EPIC
Definitions
Description of Standard Procedure
In order to use the FHIR connection to pull EPIC data and values into REDCap, you must log into EPIC and connect your REDCap project. This is done only 1x per project per person. So after you connect your project, you will not have to do this step again unless it is to connect to a different project. Each person that intends on pulling data from EPIC must do this.
To start, log in to EPIC and Click the REDCap button
Note that this location is the default location for a Research Coordinator role in EPIC, UTSW Physicians must find REDCap under More Activities section of EPIC
Search "zzztest" This will find a test patient so that you can get a token to use with REDCap. Tokens are good for 60 minutes.
Select any "zzztest" patient.
Once you. are in your test patient, select the project you want to integrate using the drop down box next to the REDCap Clicnial Data Pull.
Now that your project is connected to EPIC, you can close out and log into REDCap. When you want to use the Data Pull function, you will need to select “Stand Alone EPIC” located in REDCap left navigation or you may also click the view link in the next screen under the Record Status Dashboard. This activates this function for the next 60 minutes.
Tips for testing whether you have everything mapped correctly for FHIR.
- You should first use the Mapping Helper with a known patient that has had the labs to ensure codes are correct.
- If you can't find all the labs then use this project particularly if you are looking for panels
- If you still can't find the labs then download the file include here. ( this is the file that my Pathologist Informatician produced – and I keep it in the template project so they don’t have to come back to me) not that I don’t want to see and help my users, but I like to give them everything right upfront.
- If you still can't find the lab, then go to and look through Mayo Clinics test catalogue to find the code.
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References
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Effective Date: 10/01/2020 Version: 1.0