Malford, in v5 there is a new task tracking feature that allows tasks assigned to staff, or staff groups, then put into a pending category. It is possible that when you order a lab you could send a task, upon giving the pt their paperwork you could change the tasks status to pending, then upon receiving the lab results the task can be changed to completed.
I'm not sure about all this in practice though. I have an open question towards the boards opinion of this as a solution. What do you think, and have you seen this yet?