Belkis, one quick question. Does Labcorp pay for the interface also? I so, I sure wish AC/Labcorp would let us know these things.
We had the Quest interface installed on Wed. We had some frustrating installation issues and it took a few hours to get it running. I still have an issue, but it works.
In the end, there is a Quest file installed in the AC folder and labs are downloaded to it. Just to to File/IMport Labs and import the labs. I found 1 bug and 2 complaints.
1) The Bug. On the imported labs, if you click on a measure you then get the option to click on a button to "graph it." Sound like a great idea. But it doesn't work. I got an error message and it shut down AC.
2)Complaint one. Occassionally, the lab can't be matched up with a patient (misspelled name, patient put in twice but cant be deleted,). The interface forces you to try to resolve this right then, and wont proceed until you do. I think that these labs should be automatically placed into an "orphaned labs" folder and skipped. The rest of the labs should be imported, and the system should then alert the user that some labs could not be matched. You can then go to the Orphan folder and resolve any unmatched lab issues.
3)When you open the lab, the window is at a fixed size. Can this me modified so we can change the window size. We'd like to open it up to full screen.
4) Importing the labs is slow when I compare it to importing data into other programs. You import 10 labs and it takes about 5 minutes. I'm used to importing data into something like Excel or Outlook or Palm Operating System, and it imports almost instantly (once you 'map'it.) Is there anyway to speed up the actual import.
Other than these issues, the interface is so far working like a charm. One more manual task eliminated.
