Originally Posted by melanie
. What I am trying to sort out is (since we have a lot of paper generated by our in-office lab) - is this:
Is there ANY way to have a document added to a patient's chart that will enable it to be searchable? By that, I mean if our office lab churns out a sheet with an A1C of 6.5%, is there a way to add that to a pt's chart that will let me: A) Quickly sign off on it B)send a message to the M.A. to tell the pt. by email that the lab is great, etc.etc. recheck in 3 months AND have this message be permanently part of the medical record,and finally C) have the result searchable within the medical record so that if I wanted to view a list of all of my pt's whose A1C is below 7.0%, this pt. would pop up in the list?

Melanie

Iff (that's if-and-only-if) the lab is downloaded via the lab interface, the doctor can add a note to the labs when they sign off on it. This note can be automatically generated as a letter to the patient. I dont know exactly how, but Alice does this on all labs. She then just sends a message to the MA asking them to send the letter to the patient.

On those downloaded labs, you can run a report searching for testname=hemoglobin a1c and value < 7.

Now, this works on labs downloaded via our lab interfaces. I don't know if it is possible otherwise.

Wayne
New York, NY
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