Newsletters

March 2019

Highlights include:

  • Upgrade to Epic version 2018 coming April 18

October 2017

Highlights include:

  • Requests for new or updated emrU ePatients should be submitted via ESC
  • How to submit an ESC request instructions

June 2017

Highlights include:

  • Epic upgrade week of July 16
  • emrU database refresh weeks of July 23 and July 30
    • Action required!
    • Resubmit user access
    • Reinstate fake patients

February 2017

Highlights include:

  • University of Iowa shares emrU experiences
  • Epic double upgrade coming Summer 2017
  • Not too soon to plan ahead for Fall 2017

November 2016

Highlights include:

  • our new administration
  • planning for Spring semester
  • software upgrade

October 2014 

Highlights include:

  • our new curriculum map of emrU's integration across the entire health science curriculum 
  • emrU's appearance at the AAMC next week

September 2014 

Highlights include:

  • emrU is one year old this month! We launched in the Carver College of Medicine in September 2013.
  • Additional presentations are now available on the emrU website, including an introductory handout and corresponding poster.  
  • HIPAA compliance is no longer required for emrU access. (To clarify, every other Epic environment at UI Health Care still requires HIPAA).

August 2014 

Highlights include:

  • emrU is now used in eight different health science programs across campus!
  • Iowa is working hard to prepare our students for a future of collaborative, team-based health care. Interested? Read Collective Wisdom in this quarter's Medicine Iowa magazine or visit Iowa's Interprofessional Education website.
  • There are two types of upgrades that we perform to the Epic emrU environment: synchronization and new version upgrades.

June 2014 

Highlights include:

  • Overviews of our panel and poster presentations at the AAMC's Group on Information Resources conference this month
  • Where the University of Iowa's electronic medical record integration efforts stand out
  • Our rapid implementation timeline

May 2014 

Highlights include:

  • The College of Nursing's emrU go-live
  • A new digital sign marketing emrU to the campus community

April 2014 

Highlights include:

  • In this poster, we presented emrU's learning objectives and educational outcomes to date 
  • In this slideshow, we discuss the technical and communication aspects of emrU 

March 2014 

Highlights include:

  • Dr. Gary Milavetz says that "[emrU] is an important tool to allow students to work together."
  • Professor Tony Brenneman notes that "[emrU provides]...another level of reality to what we're teaching."
  • And Dr. Jeff Reist concludes that "we just need to get behind this [emrU]. And we need to totally embed it in many of our active learning activities."

February 2014 

Highlights include:

  • A new emrU background image
  • Acceleration of the project and continued expansion across the health sciences

January 2014 

Highlights include:

  • Successful rollout of emrU across the health sciences
  • Six months of emrU
  • Sharing emrU at academic conferences

December 2013  

Highlights include:

  • Expanding emrU to include students in the majority of health sciences
  • Excellence at Iowa; leading innovation in health sciences education
  • Sharing our efforts and progress at conferences

November 2013 

Highlights include:

  • Expanding emrU to include students in the majority of the health sciences
  • The emrU Patient Catalog; a resource for educators—we have simulated patients built into the system; one of them might be adaptable to your curriculum.
  • An academic proposal to present emrU at a meeting of medical schools in February

October 2013  

Highlights include:

  • The University of Iowa leading collaboration between schools using electronic medical records in academic settings
  • Patient build status

September 2013 

Highlights include:

  • Details of our go-live this August and September
  • A big thank you for everyone who helped us get this project off the ground
  • An overview of emrU's use in a case-based learning format

August 2013 

Highlights include:

  • Details of the first classroom use of emrU!
  • Exciting progress toward interprofessional use of emrU
  • Collaboration with other schools with EMR-in-Education programs

July 2013 

It has been an exciting month for emrU, including our first fake patient being built, reaching out to the College of Pharmacy and more!

June 2013 

Highlights include:

  • A reminder of what emrU is (Epic in the curriculum)
  • Patient build has started, emrU will be live in classes this fall!
  • We have a strong, expanding, interprofessional group; find one of use near you and find out what emrU can do for you!