Table 1.

External Services Employed by the Electronic Outpatient Whiteboard

Service	Purpose	Information Received
Patient Summary a	Retrieves summary of statistics for a queried patient	Known allergies, current medications, illnesses
Pager a	Performs paging using specific inputs	None
Graduate Medical Education (GME) Data a	Retrieves specific information about trainees	Level of training, program description, year
Enterprise Person Index (EPI) Lookup a	Retrieves basic human resource information on Vanderbilt employees	Job code, name, email, username, department
Patient EPI Lookup a	Retrieves basic demographic information on a particular patient	Name, date of birth, address
Provider Lookup a	Retrieves detailed information about a provider	Specialty, department, provider id
Appointment a	Retrieves appointment information about a particular patient visit	Appointment schedule, insurance information, provider, appointment duration
Census a	Checks to see if a particular patient is currently admitted in the hospital	Returns a flag if a patient is admitted elsewhere
Core Data a	Retrieves commonly used patient data	Vitals, basic labs, chemical balance
Vanderbilt Outpatient Order Management (VOOM) API a	Retrieves active outpatient orders for a particular patient	Order date, order time, person who requested order
Vanderbilt Oncology Information System (VOIS) API a	Retrieves chemotherapy orders	Order date, order time, person who requested order
Immunization Forecaster b	Supports algorithm to calculate required vaccines	Vaccines that are due

^a Service from VUMC;

^b Service from 3rd-party commercial vendor