I don't know if you have to associate them to the patient first, which is 3/4 of the effort.
David, The database of the incoming labs doesn't always match the AC database, so sometimes I have to manually match them. I would say this occurs with about 1 of 10 results for me. Is that what you are referring to?
My main gripe is that when you hit Import -> lab and x-ray, the import is painfully slow, and it totally ties up the computer on which you do the import.
This is annoying. We have thought of creating an automated routine that would run this in off hours to avoid this annoyance. Of course if it gets "stuck" as above, the routine would not complete.
I still throw my weight behind the granular data and direct import.
Absolutely! This is where we have got to be headed. At some point the labs will come in to a (prettier) spreadsheet, but what we get now is not too shabby.
What the fact that there are extra clicks does is: I don't' review all the labs
Roger, I too dislike those extra clicks, but really I think there is only one extra on our LabCorp interface (I think you hit "sign off" twice). By leaving the lab till later, don't you end up with even more extras?
