Order patient transport from the patient chart in Epic
The RideMMT SMART on FHIR app, powered by VectorCare, gives care teams an Easy Button in Epic to order patient transport for any transport type and any patient acuity without leaving the chart. Mass Movement Transport fulfills the trip. VectorCare provides the SMART on FHIR rails.
Illustrative example · order from the chart · not real patient data
Easy Button in Epic
Order transports from the patient chart for any transport type and any patient acuity, as enabled for your program.
Ground, air, and outpatient contexts
Built for ground IFT and discharge, air transportation, and outpatient transportation.
Live from Epic Showroom
Listed in Epic Showroom (id 3535) and on VectorCare's SMART on FHIR app marketplace. Your Epic team keeps control of the schedule.
Four steps, all inside the patient's chart in Epic
Open RideMMT from the chart
Your Epic team adds the RideMMT SMART on FHIR app. Staff open it from the patient or encounter they are working in, inside Epic.
Order the transport
Use the Easy Button workflow to request the transport type and acuity the patient needs, without retyping details into a separate portal.
Track and manage the order in Epic
Review, track, and manage transport orders while communicating with care teams inside your Epic environment.
Keep fulfillment with MMT
Requests flow to Mass Movement Transport for execution. VectorCare provides the SMART on FHIR / SoFaaS rails; MMT is the transport partner.
Coordinate patient transport without leaving Epic
No separate portal for the request
Staff start from the chart instead of retyping patient details into another website.
Easy Button for any acuity
Request transport for any transport type and any patient acuity level, as configured for your program.
Less manual data entry
The workflow is designed to cut re-keying and keep ordering inside Epic.
Status and visibility in one place
Review, track, and manage transport orders in the app window inside Epic.
Communication in your Epic environment
Manage communication with care teams without leaving the EHR workflow.
Ground, air, and outpatient coverage contexts
Support ground IFT and discharge, air transportation, and outpatient transportation as enabled with MMT for your market.
Built for the trips your team already coordinates
Inpatient discharge
Schedule ground transport when the patient is ready to leave.
Inter-facility transfer (IFT)
Move patients between facilities with MMT ground transport.
Air transportation
Request air transport when clinically appropriate and enabled for your program.
Outpatient transportation
Support clinic and similar outpatient trip patterns.
ED departure
Request a trip home or to the next care site from the emergency department workflow.
Transports bill as usual under your MMT arrangement
Transports are billed as usual under your Mass Movement Transport and facility arrangement. Ask us on the walkthrough about implementation into Epic for your health system.
Transports, billed as usual
Transports are billed as usual under your MMT and facility arrangement.
Epic SMART on FHIR, plus an MMT path
An Epic environment that can launch SMART on FHIR apps, plus a path to MMT fulfillment for your market. Details on the walkthrough.
Implementation path for your health system
Implementation path and any health-system costs for turning on RideMMT in Epic.
For your Epic analyst and IT team
The RideMMT SMART on FHIR app is a standard SMART on FHIR launch from inside Epic. Here is what your team is signing up for.
What it is, technically
- Launch
- SMART on FHIR app launched from the patient or encounter context in Epic.
- Access
- Staff open it from inside Epic, in the patient's chart.
- Auth
- Ask us for the client type, API, and scope list for your build.
- Data
- Reads patient and encounter context through FHIR to support the request. Ask us for the full API and scope list.
- Downstream
- Requests flow to Mass Movement Transport for fulfillment. VectorCare provides the SoFaaS / SMART on FHIR runtime.
- Security
- VectorCare has completed a SOC 2 Type II audit, with the report available under NDA, and signs Business Associate Agreements with covered entities. Security details
Activation steps
- Request the download
Request the download in Epic Showroom (listing id 3535: RideMMT by VectorCare).
- VectorCare grants access
VectorCare grants non-production and production access as applicable.
- Your Epic analyst builds it
Add launch points, roles, FHIR privileges, and URL allowlists.
- Wire the environment
VectorCare and MMT complete environment wiring for request flow and status visibility in Epic.
- Test, then go live
Test in non-production, then go live through your change control.
Live from Epic Showroom. How long this takes depends on your team's change control and security review. We will map a realistic plan on the walkthrough.
RideMMT in the VectorCare SMART on FHIR app marketplace
RideMMT
The RideMMT SMART on FHIR app, powered by VectorCare, helps care teams order and track patient transport with Mass Movement Transport without leaving Epic. See the full listing in our SMART on FHIR app marketplace.
Integrations
Epic ShowroomFrequently asked questions
The RideMMT SMART on FHIR app is an app experience inside Epic, powered by VectorCare, that lets care teams order and track patient transport from the patient chart. Mass Movement Transport provides transport fulfillment. It is listed in Epic Showroom (listing id 3535).
Transports are billed as usual under your Mass Movement Transport and facility arrangement. Ask us on the walkthrough about implementation into Epic for your health system.
No. VectorCare provides the patient logistics platform and SMART on FHIR layer. Mass Movement Transport (MMT) provides transport fulfillment behind RideMMT. VectorCare is not a broker or a transport company.
RideMMT is positioned for any transport type and any patient acuity level, as configured for your program, including ground IFT and discharge, air transportation, and outpatient transportation. Your walkthrough will map which levels apply in your market.
Yes. Teams can review, track, and manage transport orders inside the Epic environment.
Mass Movement Transport (MMT) is the transport partner behind RideMMT. VectorCare provides the SMART on FHIR / SoFaaS rails that embed RideMMT in Epic.
Your Epic team requests the app in Epic Showroom (id 3535), adds launch points, assigns roles and FHIR privileges, allowlists required URLs, and moves the build through non-production to production under your change control. VectorCare supports app access and workflow setup with MMT connected for fulfillment. Go-live is a standard SMART on FHIR launch from Epic Showroom; your Epic team keeps control of the schedule. On the walkthrough we will map the steps to your process.
See a transport request from the chart
Bring your transport lead and your Epic analyst. On a walkthrough we will walk a test request from the chart, show how RideMMT sits inside Epic, and outline the build steps for your team.
RideMMT and Mass Movement Transport are trademarks of their respective owners. Epic and Showroom are trademarks of Epic Systems Corporation. Epic does not endorse, certify, or verify this product. VectorCare is not a transportation broker or a transport provider.