EndoManager^® and Epic Seamless integration with Epic and Lumens

EndoManager EMS sends endoscopy images captured in the procedure room straight into the Epic Lumens procedure note, with no separate VNA. It takes orders, scheduling and patient updates from Epic, puts the patient on the room's worklist, and forwards images to Lumens and Epic Gallery.

Epic Showroom Listing

What Toolbox means

Epic describes the Toolbox designation as: "Products in specific categories that follow Epic recommended connection practices for a category."

Epic describes the category: "Endoscope data capture integrations allow vendors to gather data from a scope, format it, and then send it downstream. Currently, Epic is focused on image data, though that will expand to video, event, and other data in the future. This data is used throughout Lumens workflows, e.g., documenting findings or writing a procedure note."

Source: Epic Showroom, listing 3848 (opens in a new tab).

How images get from the scope to the Lumens note

1. EndoManager receives HL7 orders from Epic.
2. The patient is on the room's worklist. Cameras and processors with native DICOM worklist support get the worklist from EndoManager directly. Rooms whose equipment doesn't support DICOM or worklist use a capture station at the tower, where staff pick the patient from the same worklist.
3. The patient is confirmed in the room. Patient demographics show on the physician's procedure monitor before capture on supported devices only.
4. Images come back to EndoManager. DICOM devices send them by C-STORE or C-MOVE; capture stations send them directly. EndoManager stores them.
5. EndoManager forwards to Epic. Images go straight into the Lumens procedure note, and to Epic Gallery where used, over HL7 MDM or file sweep. No separate VNA is required.
6. The physician documents. Images are already in Lumens when the procedure ends. No extra clicks.

How EndoManager EMS works →

Where EndoManager shows up in Epic workflows

Lumens

Images are available in the Lumens procedure note as soon as they're captured, so physicians select and document findings without leaving Epic.

Epic Gallery

EndoManager sends images to Epic Gallery, over HL7 MDM or file sweep, for organizations that keep clinical media there. The EndoManager capture station can also send straight to Epic Gallery on its own, without the full imaging back end. See Epic Gallery.

Delivery methods

Depending on the destination, EndoManager forwards to Epic by API, HL7 MDM or file drop.

Why imaging without a VNA matters

Many organizations moving endoscopy documentation into Lumens assume they need to buy and run an enterprise archive before go-live. With EndoManager they don't.

• Fewer systems on the critical path. Images go from the room to EndoManager to the Lumens note.
• No archive purchase just to go live. EndoManager stores the images itself.
• Keep the option. If your organization runs a PACS or VNA, or plans to, EndoManager routes to it. Your archive policy decides, not your imaging vendor.

Every scope brand, one Epic workflow

Most endoscopy departments run more than one scope brand. EndoManager works with Fujifilm^®, Olympus^®, Pentax^® and other camera systems, so every room feeds the same Lumens workflow whichever tower is in it. Modalities include endoscopy, bronchoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS and EBUS), fluoroscopy and FEES.

Related

Integrations Builder · Epic Gallery · Showroom and Toolbox listing facts · EndoManager EMS · PACS and VNA · Endoscopy equipment

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