OK, I hate to admit it but this is one feature of Epic that I like. In the patient portal, there are flow sheets for BP and Sugars and Protimes (which are collected at an anticoagulation clinic). The patient just plugs in their readings in real time and they magically appear instantly in the flow sheet in their chart as well as in my In Basket. The BP one is great, the sugar one needs a little more work to allow more options for additional times taken, pre-meal, post-meal, diet record, etc. But all in all it works great and I am not burdened looking at all of those scraps of paper and then scanning those into the system (unfortunately not as nice to work with as is ACs Imported Items) or having staff spend their time entering them into a flow sheet. Patients also like it a lot and I can immediately reply to them via the portal to do this or do that or decrease frequency of testing.
