What does the house icon indicate when reviewing a patient's home medications?

• A. The patient reported taking this medication.
• B. This medication was entered in Epic as an outpatient prescription.
• C. The last dose of this medication was taken today.
• D. It's the patient’s home medication that must be reconciled.

Answer: (B)

The house icon is signaling that the medication originated as an outpatient prescription entered in Epic. In the inpatient workflow, this visual cue helps you quickly identify meds that were prescribed outside the hospital and added to the patient’s home med list from an outpatient prescription rather than created as a new inpatient order or just recorded as a general home med. Knowing the source helps you reconcile accurately: you can pull the exact outpatient prescription details (drug, strength, directions) and compare them with what’s being used or ordered during the hospital stay, ensuring consistency and catching any discrepancies. It’s not simply about a patient reporting taking a med, nor about the last dose today, and while reconciliation is involved, the icon specifically flags outpatient prescription origin.