Blood tests & The Doctor's Laboratory

A blood test leaves the clinic as a request and comes back as a report somebody has to read, file against the right patient and act on. VeriPath Health Clinics runs both ends of that: the order is raised on the patient's record, and the report, when it arrives, files itself onto the same record.

The Log Lab Order modal in VeriPath Health Clinics — the patient's name and date of birth ready to copy into the TDL portal, the test list with the ordered tests ticked, and the TDL reference

The order is raised from the record

Choose Log Lab Order on the patient's record and tick the tests — full blood count, urea and electrolytes, liver function, HbA1c, lipids, thyroid, vitamin D. The order is saved against that patient and the clinician who asked for it. Their name and date of birth copy into the TDL portal in one click, so nothing is retyped into the lab's own system, and the reference from the printed TDL form is scanned back into the order. Until the results come back it sits there as pending, so nothing is quietly forgotten.

The results arrive on their own

TDL emails the encrypted report to the practice's own results mailbox. The app checks that mailbox every five minutes, decrypts the report with the practice's own password, reads it, and works out which patient it belongs to from the name and date of birth on it.

Certain, it files itself — uncertain, it waits for a person

A confident match files the report onto the record without anyone touching it. When the match is not certain the report goes to Verify & File instead, with the candidate patients set beside it and the decision left to the practice.

The numbers, not just another PDF

Each test is stored with its value, its unit and the range it should fall in, and anything outside that range is flagged.

The filed pathology report in VeriPath Health Clinics — the document's reference, status and source, and the parsed results with their values, ranges and units, the abnormal results flagged

On the record, with the report behind it

The order closes as filed, and the report sits on the patient's record beside every other one, with the PDF a click away.

The Lab Orders and Lab Reports cards on a patient's record in VeriPath Health Clinics — the tests ordered, the TDL reference, the filed badge and the report with its source and status

The report stays the practice's own

The mailbox, the password that opens the reports and the reports themselves belong to the practice. Nothing is pooled with a vendor, and the result of a blood test is not left sitting in somebody else's system waiting to be collected.

Part of the VeriPath Health Clinics set

Medical notes — the consultation note the result is read against.
Appointments — the visit the test was ordered at.
The full Health Clinics set