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## Lab Results Settings

The Lab Results Settings screen lets a user create personal snapshots and phrases and set how many days worth of lab data to download to their handheld. Snapshots are used to customize sets of lab components that are viewed on the handheld. Phrases are shortcuts for adding commonly used phrases to lab annotations on the handheld. The department administrator may have created some stock snapshots and stock phrases that users can access automatically. If these snapshots and phrases aren't useful, the user can hide them so that they don't appear on the handheld device. When you select Lab Results from the Edit Settings menu, the Lab Results Settings screen appears.

The Lab Results Settings screen allows you to view and configure the following parameters:

- Snapshots : This setting displays those snapshots that will be available to the selected user when using the Snapshots button on their handheld device. A snapshot is a customized grouping of lab components from arbitrary panels in your lab system. For example, you may prefer to see Cholesterol, Sodium, and Triglyceride results grouped together. These could be added as components of a snapshot, so that the information could be viewed collectively as a single result. If there are stock snapshots that are not useful, you can hide them so that they aren't available on your handheld device. Only those stock snapshots that are not hidden will be available.
  Click the Edit link to modify the hide/unhide settings for stock snapshots or to add new personal snapshots.

- To set the hide/unhide properties for a stock snapshot, select the snapshot by clicking on it in the View Snapshots form and then click the Hide or UnHide button in the Quick Details box. Note that the button toggles between Hide and Unhide depending upon whether or not the Hidden column has been checked or unchecked, respectively, for the snapshot.
- To create a personal snapshot that is available only to the selected user, click the New Snapshot button on the toolbar. Enter a Snapshot Title in the Quick Details box and then check those lab components you wish to include in the snapshot. Click the Search button and enter search text to more easily locate components. Once you have selected all of the components for the snapshot, click the Save button to create the snapshot. Once the personal snapshot is created, you can also use the Edit button to add or remove components from the snapshot and the Delete button to remove the snapshot.

- Phrases : This setting displays those phrases that will be available to the selected user as a shortcut when annotating lab results on their handheld device. If there are stock phrases that are not useful, you can hide them so that they aren't available on your handheld device. Click the Edit link to create a personal phrase and to modify the hide/unhide status of stock phrases, if any are defined.

- To create a personal phrase that is available only to the selected user, click the New Phrase button on the toolbar. Enter text, up to 128 characters, to complete the phrase and then click the Save button to create it. Once the personal phrase is created, you can also use the Edit button to change its text and the Delete button to remove it.
- To sort all phrases so that they will appear in a specific order for the selected user, click the Sort Phrases button on the toolbar. Use the buttons to move the phrases up, down, to the top, into alphabetical order, and click Save to store the changes.
- To modify the hide/unhide status for a stock phrase, select that phrase from the View Phrase form and then click the Hide or Unhide button. Hidden stock phrases will not be available to the selected user when annotating lab results.

- # of Days Lab Data to Download : This setting determines how many days, between 0 and 180, of lab data per patient to download to the selected user's handheld device during a sync. Keep in mind that the amount of data downloading affects the length of time required for a sync.