Description
The options available on this page depend on how you access it.
- If you access it from the Location Inbox or User Inbox pages, you may view current or historical results for the order, view newer or older versions of the report, view the delivery history (if you have the necessary access rights), redeliver the report, view or modify comments, acknowledge the report, fax the report, or print the report, as well as access the Result History page.
- If you access it from the Order History, Order Patient Samples, or Search pages, you may view current or historical results for the order, view the delivery history (if you have the necessary access rights), redeliver the report, view or modify comments, fax the report, or print the report, as well as access the Result History page.
- If you access it from the Reassign Orders page, you may view current or historical results for the order, view the delivery history (if you have the necessary access rights), redeliver the report, view or modify comments, and fax or print the report.
Report Formats
The program determines the report header, body, and footer formats based on the page from which you print the lab report.
- If you print the lab report from the Location Inbox, the program uses the default report format settings for the current location that were set in the Locations administration page. See the Locations topic.
- If you print the lab report from the User Inbox, the program uses the default report format settings for the current user that were set in the Result Delivery page. See the Result Delivery topic.
- If you print the lab report from any other page, the program uses the default report format settings that were set in the System Defaults administration page. See the System Defaults topic.
Carbon Copy (CC) Recipients on Reports
Patient reports you print from the Location Inbox and the User Inbox have a Copies sent to: field in the footer, where the program lists potential providers and host interfaces. Whether or not the recipients received the report depends on the recipients' result delivery settings at the time the program created the report.
For example, if a CC recipient's result delivery setting is to receive reports only when all order choices are final in an order, and if the report only contains final results for one order choice out of several ordered, then the program would list the recipient as a possible CC recipient on reports printed from the Location Inbox or User Inbox, but it would not actually send the report to the recipient until all of the order choices in the order were final.
Patient reports you reprint from the patient's Order History page do not display the Copies sent to: text and data.
Report Titles
The title of the report changes slightly, depending on where the report was printed and whether or not the setting to display history is enabled. the program adds (Summary) only when it is not a delivered report (e.g., Order History page); otherwise, the program does not add any text to the LAB REPORT title. Depending on the administration settings for the order choices in the report, the program may suppress historical results on lab reports.
Included Results
Note that depending on the security rights assigned to your role, the program may restrict access to the lab report results based on whether you are an associate of the ordering provider for an order. In addition, depending on the settings for the order choices on the report, the results may have to be manually released on the Release Results page before you can see the results on reports. See the Release Results topic.
Access
- Select the Order ID of the desired order, select Lab Report, and then View in the pop-up list in the Collect Samples, Location Inbox, User Inbox, Pending Orders, Order History (Partial or Complete statuses only), Create Manifest, or Find Patient or Order pages or the Lab Orders administration page.
- Select the View Order's Summary Report button in the Reassign Order page in the Administration menu. You must have the necessary security permissions to access Administration menu items.
- Scan an order bar code while the default page when scanning setting on the System Defaults administration page is set to open the Lab Report page.
Technical Manual
Viewing, Delivering, and Acknowledging Reports
The Lab Report page contains a detailed report for the selected order. Use the scroll bar on the right side of the page to view the entire report.
Note
The program does not display results for cancelled order choices.
Some of the information displayed on the report depends on the administration settings for the order choices, including:
- By default, the program displays the most recent result posted for each different test within an order choice; however, depending on the administration settings for the order choices, the program may only display the most recent set of test results for an order choice that were sent in the HL7 result message.
- The program displays the test name on patient lab reports. When the program automatically creates the test from results, it sets the name to the order choice's abbreviation by default; however, you may edit this field, if desired, on the Tests administration page to modify what appears on patient lab reports.
- The program may display a time zone abbreviation after all dates on patient reports. The time zone on the report is typically based on the time zone for the recipient of the report.
Note
If you are viewing the report from the Location Inbox or User Inbox pages, the report may not show the time zone. Reports viewed from these two pages get saved into the database after their first viewing, so if this option was not enabled when the reports were originally viewed from the Location Inbox or User Inbox pages, then those reports will never display the time zone.
| Order ID | Select the link at the top of the report to access Review Order, Samples, Labels, Requisition, Change Log, Lab Report, Linked Documents, or Lab Info Request.
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| Show Historical Results | Select or clear the checkbox to show or hide previous results for order choices in the report. Note that this checkbox is disabled for some report formats. Depending on the System Default administration settings, this checkbox may be selected by default. When you display the historical results, the program displays a column for each result, with the collection date, approval date, or creation date listed at the top of each result column. The date and time listed depends on what date is available:
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| Limit Order Choices Displayed | Select the checkbox to restrict the order choices included in the report. Once you select the checkbox, you can choose which order choice(s) to show on the report in the Display Order Choices list. |
| Refresh | Select to update the report. If you remove the last or only order choice from the display, the program updates the report to state, “There are no qualifying order choices to be displayed.” |
| Graph | Select one of the tests in the order or select the button to view the test history or graphing for the selected test. See the Report Graph topic. |
| Older Versions | Select to view older versions of reports. |
| Newer Versions | Select to view newer versions of reports. |
| Previous Entry | Select the button to navigate to the previous entry of the list of records from the inbox page without needing to return to the inbox. |
| Next Entry | Select to navigate to the next entry of the list of records from the inbox page without needing to return to the inbox. |
| Options | Select to select an option from the pop-up menu to redeliver results, view the delivery history, add comments, or view the results on a graph. |
| Redeliver | Select to redeliver the most recent results to all qualified recipients at the time you select the button (note that inbox recipients are not redelivered, since it would nullify past acknowledgements). This button is only visible for users who either have the right to use the Report Redelivery page or to users who have the right to redeliver reports from the Results To page accessed from the Order Patient Samples page |
| Delivery History | Select to open the Result Delivery report page with the appropriate order selected and a time range that should encompass all result deliveries for the order (start date = ordered date, end date = current date). See the Result Delivery topic. |
| Comments | Select to view, add, or modify the comments related to the current order in the Order Comments Pop-up. Note that if there are comments for the order, the Comments button text will be italicized. |
| Deliver | Select to select an option from the pop-up menu to print the report, or deliver the report to a user in the system, an external recipient, a location, or a host. |
Select to print the report. Change the print settings in the print dialog, if needed and select Print. The program prints the report according to the settings you established in the print dialogs (number of copies, printer destination, etc.). Note When you access this page from the Order History page, and you print a report using alternate header one, the Deliver To field changes to Requested By. | |
| User | Select to send the report to a designated user’s email address, fax number, or inbox using the Deliver Lab Report pop-up. |
| External Recipient | Select to send the report to recipient outside of your organization using the Deliver Lab Report pop-up. |
| Owner | Select to send the report to a designated animal owner’s email address. This option is only visible if the patient on the order is in a practice that supports animal patients, the patient has at least one owner with email address contact information, and you have the Allow patient email delivery when viewing a Lab Report security right. |
| Location | Select to send the report to a designated location’s email address, fax number, or inbox using the Deliver Lab Report pop-up. |
| Host | Select to send the report to the appropriate host. If no hosts are available, you will not be able to select this option. |
| View Related Sanford Guide Content | Select to open the Lab Report pop-up to show tests and results that have content available in the Sanford Guide Catalog. The pop-up contains the following sections of content from Sanford Guide:
The Enable Sanford Guide API checkbox must be enabled on the System Defaults administration page and a valid Sanford Guide user name and password must be saved. For a test to be displayed, it must be on an order choice that has the Enable Sanford Guide lookup checkbox enabled on the Order Choices administration page and have a result with a flag in the order choice's list of applicable result flags. If no flags are set, all tests with data in the Sanford Guide Catalog are displayed. |
| Acknowledge | Select to indicate that you have reviewed the report. When you acknowledge a report, you are also acknowledging any previous versions of the report that may exist. When you perform your next search, the program removes the acknowledged results from the list; however, you may still view these results by viewing the patient's record in the Order History page. |
| Refresh | Select to update the on-screen report with any updated information. |
| Back | Select to return to the preceding page. |
| Close | Select to return to the preceding page. |
| < Back to Inbox | Select to return to the preceding page. |
Review or Print Reports
Once you have reviewed or printed a report, the program stores a copy of the report.
Note
The program only saves result reports and not summary or other reports.
- If you re-open or reprint this report, the program retains the printed date and time in the header from the first time the report was viewed or printed.
- If any report recipients change their report formats after the program creates the report the first time it is viewed or printed, the program displays an alert in red at the top of the page notifying you that recipients have changed their report formats since the report was originally viewed or printed.
- The program has a utility that will clean up the temporary report display files that have not been modified in over two days. It creates these files when it displays reports. To take advantage of this feature, make certain that the system is running at midnight, as it runs the clean-up utility at midnight if the system is operating.
