1. Message Center
Message Center - Introduction

2. What is Message Center?
Message Center is a component of eKiDs that is used to
manage the workflow in the inpatient or outpatient setting.
Message Center enables you to review or sign documents
online as well as route information electronically.
Hospital based documents requiring your dictation are
managed through the Message Center Inbox.
Important Note:
Message Center will replace the use of Electronic Signature
Authentication (ESA) at CHKDHS.
Message Center - Introduction

3. Benefits of Message Center
The Message Center offers the following benefits:
All messages and notifications that require your attention, review or signature are routed to your Inbox and organized in a document folder
Your Inbox can be accessed from any computer on your network that has Cerner Millennium installed on it
Reduces the need to manage the flow of hard copies of documentation for provider review
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4. Accessing Message Center
To get to the Message Center view, click the button.
To open your Patient List, click on the toolbar button.
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5. Message Center Components
Inbox Summary –
The Inbox Summary provides you with a quick view of all of the items in your Inbox. A number in parentheses listed next to the type of documents indicates the number of unread messages.
The Inbox Summary contains the
following tabs:
Inbox: Your own Inbox
Proxies: Inboxes of other physician’s you have proxy rights to
Pools: Pool Inboxes (Not available at this time)
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6. Message Center Components
The Inbox Items section of your Inbox Summary will contain a Documents and a Messages section.
The Documents section will be broken down into the following folders:
Sign- Scanned and SoftMed documents requiring signature.
Forwarded documents to sign - Documents forwarded from other providers for signature.
Review - Documents submitted for review only.
Forwarded documents to review - Documents forwarded from other providers for review.
Messages section displays Proxy notifications only.
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7. Message Center Components
The Work Items section of the Inbox Summary will
contain the following sections for physicians:
Saved documents: Documents added to the Documents tab in PowerChart that have been saved instead of signed or submitted.
Documents to dictate: These are anticipated documents that are added automatically or assigned by the HIM staff. The only documents that will appear in the Documents to Dictate folder are:
For Residents – RD H&P (resident dictate H&P), RD D/C (resident dictate discharge summary), RD OP (resident dictate operative report), and RD ED (resident dictate ED)
For Attendings – Anticipated document for the op note (KD OPERATIV RPT)
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8. Dictating a Document
Open the document by double clicking on the patient name.
To view the patient record select the box above the list window that contains the patient name.
Review the record and dictate the document.
After dictating, select the ‘X’ in the Document to Dictate tab to return to the Document to Dictate folder.

9. Dictating a Document
On the Documents to Dictate folder select √ Complete from the tool bar above the document window.
This removes the document from dictation list.
COMPLETE the document ONLY after you have dictated the complete document.

10. Refusing a Document to Dictate
Important Note
Attending Physicians:
Do Not use Refuse when you know a resident is responsible for dictating the report for you.
Choose the Skip option; this item will remain in your Documents to Dictate folder until the deficiency is completed.

11. Refusing a Document to Dictate
If an attending knows another attending is responsible for signing or dictating the document or a resident knows that another resident is responsible for dictating the document, send the document back to HIM by completing the information on the Action Pane

12. Refusing a Document to Dictate
Select Refuse
Select a Reason from the drop down table
In the Addition Forward Action field, select Review
Type “him,in” into to To field and press Enter. HIM, Inbox should appear in the field
Enter the name of the responsible physician into the Comments field
Select OK & Next
Use Skip if you do not want to dictate or refuse the document at the present time.

13. Message Center Components
The Notifications section of our Inbox Summary will contain the following sections for physicians.
Sent items: Proxy notifications that you’ve sent to another provider and forwarded documents.
Trash: Deleted proxy notifications
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14. Message Center Components
The information displayed on the right pane of Message Center will change when a different item is selected from the Inbox section.
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15. Message Center Toolbar
Home - Displays a quick view of both the Inbox and Schedule.
Message Center - Displays the Inbox.
Scheduling - Displays the selected physician’s Epic schedule.
Patient List – Displays the user’s patient list
Notifications – Displays number of unread documents in the Inbox
Location History – Launches the Location History Viewer application

16. Message Center Toolbars
Open. Opens the selected notification.
Delete. Deletes selected item. This is only used in the Trash section
Select Patient. Displays only results, messages and other Inbox items particular to the selected patient. This option allows you to navigate through the items in the patient-specific inbox before returning you to the full-view inbox. Manually selecting the icon while in the patient-specific mode or refreshing will return the user to full-view inbox mode with the currently selected item in context.
Select All. Displays all results, messages and other notifications.
Empty Trash. Deletes all messages, reminders, and consults in the Messaging Trash folder.
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17. To move on to Lesson 1 Signing a Document, click on the icon below
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