Perhaps it only will work with reconciling labs once digitally connected with Quest or Labcorp. When signing off on labs or xrays that are imported into the patient's chart there is a "reconcile with orders" option. That does not work right now. The only way to reconcile orders is to go to the View, orders. Click on the order then go to the bottom left box and click on "reconcile with....." and a list of the imported items in the patients chart pops up. You then double click on the imported item that matches the order and it will change the status of the order to complete and you can send it off to be deleted by someone somewhere so it doesn't clutter the area any more. This is not a great way to manage the orders, assuring that what you have ordered has been done...and not lost to follow up but I think it is the only way to do it right now. I used to print duplicate orders and follow up that way and this is a substitute but the work flow part of it isn't ideal by any means. It would be alot better to reconcile the order when you sign off on the results but that function isn't functioning yet. If that worked the only things left in view orders would be the things that are lost or that the patient never did.

Last edited by StLawrence; 04/09/2010 8:30 PM.