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Laboratory Request Form Scanning
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| Stephen.B 2005-07-12, 11:11 pm |
| Hi All,
I am interested in exploring less laboriuos ways of importing the data from
Laboratory Request forms into out Laboratory Information Management System
(LIMS) and would like to get some information on the subject from anyone who
may be using a similar mechanism in their Laboratory currently.
Seeing vast difficulties in actually importing all of the data from our
currently hand written request forms, I believe that an achievable starting
point would be that of importing the Test information only.
Any advice and information would be gratefully received.
Many thanks,
Stephen.
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| Manky Badger 2005-07-12, 11:11 pm |
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"Stephen.B" <Sorry@not.giving.it> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I am interested in exploring less laboriuos ways of importing the data
> from Laboratory Request forms into out Laboratory Information Management
> System (LIMS) and would like to get some information on the subject from
> anyone who may be using a similar mechanism in their Laboratory currently.
>
> Seeing vast difficulties in actually importing all of the data from our
> currently hand written request forms, I believe that an achievable
> starting point would be that of importing the Test information only.
>
> Any advice and information would be gratefully received.
>
> Many thanks,
We use a system for in patient/hospital out patient whereby the wards enter
the patient's demographics, diagnosis & test requests onto their ward based
computer.
This generates a form with all the details and a unique number called an ION
(bar coded) which they send with the blood sample to the lab.
We then allocate our lab number to the request and effectively tell the lab
computer that sample number 123456 goes with ION 1231346567494354645B (bar
code scanning!) and all the PID & requests appear as if by magic :o)
And then that's it, apart from a check that the details on form do indeed
match the computer.
We then" do our thing" and when results are at an "authorised stage" where
we would happily print them, the lab computer then sends them to the ward
based system.
There's plans to extend this to GP surgeries, but as always there's
squabbles as to which pot of money will pay for it.
Hope that helps.
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