Lab Results Display

mdsupport wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

This patch fixes some of the issues with display of lab results.

  1. Format modified to fit tablet display -
  • Changes display order for results from alpha to as sent by the provider - essential when lab result codes are not loaded in configuration.
  • Notes display bug - Without global $aNotes, note numbers are listed but text is not printed.

mdsupport wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

Oops. Version problem caused the patch to be full file. The patch file is attached here.

sunsetsystems wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

Thanks for taking an interest in this! Can you put the diff on github so we can more easily evaluate and make comments? Also please remove tabs.

Rod
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

arnabnaha wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

hi…
how to Install this patch file…can u give a hint on It…will love to test It out…I am on windows…and using xampp…plz help…

mdsupport wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

Rod,
Our git is messed up with 4.1.2 stuff. Anyway, here is patch version of single_order_results.inc.php that should mostly work to highlight changes.

Arnab,

  1. Be sure to save whatever you currently have.
  2. Review patch link in this reply to see the changes we made. They may not be useful for all.
  3. If you want to test and you do not have any changes of your own, replace the entire file single_order_results.inc.php with patch link from original post.

Do you already have any labs feeding hl7s?

arnabnaha wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

Thanks…I will test it on my test environment…I donot have any labs feeding hl7…I am in India…here we donot have any concept regarding hl7…but i use the lab interface to print out lab orders for my patients…the only difficulty i face is…i need to select each single investigation at a time…

arnabnaha wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

Tested it…Likely to have few problems…

  1. After creating a procedure order…everything is fine
  2. Then I click on pending review button…in the left hand menu…and enter the parameters and click on sign the results…everything fine
  3. Then I go to patient result and bingo…the problem starts…se the screenshot

Link of screenshot: http://nahahealthclinic.dyndns.org/public/patient_result1.jpg

  1. when i go to the encounter section, it is displayed as this:

Link of screenshot: http://nahahealthclinic.dyndns.org/public/patient_encounter-result.jpg

  1. why are these things getting repeated automatically…Am I doing anything wrong?

mdsupport wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

Interesting. Although Rod’s changes allow entry of a list of tests from a lab, you still select one at a time. Do review the layout changes in this patch.

If you are just entering & printing orders, I am sure you have configured frequently used panels to speed up data entry.

arnabnaha wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

No i have not configured any frequently used panel…btw, what is this panel and where do i find it? I liked the layout changes but this problem which i showed via the screenshot compel me not to use this lab feature…plz help with it…

mdsupport wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

This is the configuration issue/feature/bug referred in earlier message.

You are ordering 68501-hemoglobin that is associated with 2 orderable items. Change Male, female hb% to be results and not orders.

The feature part of the setup is, if you commonly order e.g. 4 tests together, group them by some name and when you order the group, this bug creates 5(1+4) tests!

arnabnaha wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

I have made the Male Hb% and female Nb% as discrete results and not orders…but still the same thing is there…

mdsupport wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

Was it results earlier or you changed it? If you did change it, did you test as new order?

arnabnaha wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

It was results earlier…i didnt change it now…

mdsupport wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:

Another issue is you have all three items with same code 68501. The ‘code’ for results are short identifiers. Change it to something like HB%-M, HB%-F.

mdsupport wrote on Tuesday, July 16, 2013:

The problem is recreated in current dev demo which does not have our patch. Earlier suggestion should resolve the issue - in developer’s defense, asssigning same code to order and multiple results is strange as it will cause serious reporting errors. However that is for users to learn. The software will need a review to make sure type (‘ord’,‘res’ or ‘grp’) is used in addition to ‘code’.