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Epic Workflow Help for Schedulers

Starter help for appointment ownership, referral-to-scheduling handoffs, rescheduling, queue work and operational follow-up.

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Common friction

Where schedulers often get stuck

Requests reach scheduling without the information needed to proceed

Frame the issue around ownership, expected destination, the failed handoff and what should happen next.

Referral and scheduling teams disagree about ownership

Frame the issue around ownership, expected destination, the failed handoff and what should happen next.

Reschedule or follow-up tasks age without a clear queue

Frame the issue around ownership, expected destination, the failed handoff and what should happen next.

Different locations use different exception processes

Frame the issue around ownership, expected destination, the failed handoff and what should happen next.

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Clarify these first

  • Identify the appointment or scheduling task
  • Confirm the current owner or pool
  • Identify the event that should trigger the next handoff
  • Define the exception path when scheduling cannot proceed

Keep these with authorized internal teams

  • Clinical prioritization or urgency
  • Template or protected configuration changes
  • Access or permission problems
  • Production defects or outages

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