Lab Tracking On Screen
When a case is returned back from the lab, you must mark it as Received on the Lab Case Entry screen. You may access this screen from Posting or the Reports Menu. If you go through Posting, the Lab Case Entry screen will only be showing you the lab cases for that one particular patient. If you go through the Reports Menu, you will be looking at the lab cases for the entire patient database, with the most recently sent being displayed first. You may use the screen’s navigation buttons to step through the cases.

The Lab Case Entry screen contains two useful filter buttons entitled Not Received Only and Received Only.  Click the Not Received Only button to filter out cases that have been marked as Received. You will then be viewing only outstanding lab cases. You may also click the Received Only button to display only cases that have been received. The Lab Case Entry screen also has a Single Patient Search button to limit the screen to a single patient if you have accessed the screen via the Reports Menu.

As previously mentioned, your primary action is to mark lab cases as Received as they come back. Simply click the Received From Lab button and lab tracking is completed for that case.

The Lab Tracking Report
To print the Lab Tracking Report, click the Lab Tracking Report button from the Lab Tracking Menu. The Lab Tracking Report contains all the pertinent lab tracking information including the entire comment that was entered for the case. The report can be sorted in numerous ways, and has several report filters including:

• All Patients or Single Patient
• Date Sent Date Range
• Date Due Date Range
• All Doctors/Single Doctor
• All Labs/Single Lab
• Received Only
• Not Received Only.